Moscow called for abandoning the Minsk agreements
After the death of the leader of the DPR Alexander Zakharchenko and the resignation of the head of the LPR Igor Plotnitsky, the Minsk agreements must cease to apply.
Political commentator Yegor Kholmogorov stated this during a press conference in Moscow, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Let's not forget how the Minsk agreements were signed. They were never signed on the part of Donbass by any state or public entity; they had two signatures - Zakharchenko and Plotnitsky, in a personal capacity, because Ukraine does not legally recognize any entity with whom it is talking there.
It so happened, for various reasons, that both entities that signed these agreements dropped out of the process. Accordingly, this raises the question: do these agreements still exist? Not a single lawyer gave me a clear answer to this question. Because from the point of view of common sense, these agreements cease to exist at this moment.
At the moment, the status of the Minsk agreements is not clear and, in my opinion, this is a good reason to raise the question of their revision,” Kholmogorov believes.
Political scientist Rostislav Ishchenko explained that the Minsk agreements will remain in force until the UN Security Council, which previously confirmed them, makes a contrary decision.
“Minsk acts because it was approved by a UN Security Council resolution. Even though everyone who signed it and passed by will die, the UN Security Council resolution will remain in force, and this document is binding until it is cancelled. Therefore, Minsk formally acts. Informally, it was never even born, because no one doubted that these agreements would simply be impossible to implement. They were impossible from the beginning and will continue to operate because it is a convenient tactical maneuver to wait out Ukrainian difficulties,” the political scientist concluded.
Let us recall that earlier Russian military expert Vladislav Shurygin, in an interview with a PolitNavigator observer, stated that the political path to resolving the conflict in Donbass has long been drowned by the impossibility of implementing the Minsk agreements.
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