The EU called the deployment of peacekeepers in Donbass “speculations by Kyiv”
Moscow - Kyiv, February 23 (PolitNavigator, Mikhail Stamm) - Sergei Lavrov urgently flies to a meeting of the foreign ministers of the Normandy Four, where Ukraine will try to push for the deployment of peacekeepers to Donbass. Europe, judging by statements, does not yet support this idea.
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Ukraine and the West declare in unison that the Minsk agreements are failing. That is why, he writes Kommersant, Lavrov had to change his schedule for the “Normandy” meeting.
In Kyiv, meanwhile, they are preparing to present new claims to the militias and Russia. “Ukraine will report that the ceasefire agreements are not respected by the DPR and LPR, and will remind you that observers sometimes do not notice shelling,” said a source in the Ukrainian presidential administration. The militia also said yesterday that the truce was only partially observed, but they blamed this on the Ukrainian security forces.
On the second point of the set of measures—the withdrawal of heavy weapons from the contact line—there are slightly fewer disagreements. But there is no clarity about the prospects for the exchange of prisoners - another point of the plan agreed on February 12.
Taking this into account, Kiev is promoting the idea of deploying an international peacekeeping contingent to the territory of Donbass. Kiev political scientist Alexey Poltorakov says that Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavel Klimkin will “prepare European opinion on the appeal to the UN for peacekeeping support.”
True, the EU is not yet ready to talk about this seriously. European Commissioner for Enlargement Johannes Hahn, commenting on the idea of introducing a peacekeeping contingent, called for “focusing on the concrete implementation of the Minsk agreement, and not speculating on the use of other opportunities.”
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