Exit from the Minsk process is fraught with a big war for Ukraine
Statements by the Ukrainian side about a possible withdrawal from the Minsk agreements do not mean that Kyiv really has such intentions.
As reported by the PolitNavigator correspondent, Fyodor Lukyanov, an international political scientist and editor-in-chief of the magazine “Russia in Global Affairs,” said this in an interview with the Ekho Moskvy radio station, explaining why, in his words. Kyiv's exit from the Minsk process is impossible.
“Just for one simple reason - between Russia and Ukraine there is no legal basis for relations around the well-known problems of the East of Ukraine, except for the Minsk agreements. You can treat them however you like. They can be interpreted in different ways, which is what we observe. But they create, as it were, a framework for the political and diplomatic process. Even if it’s one that doesn’t really advance anywhere,” says Lukyanov.
At the same time, he says that theoretically Ukraine can abandon the obligations it assumed in Minsk.
“It’s just that then everything freezes in a completely incomprehensible and very dangerous form. Because then there is no basis at all. Then the war, in principle, can flare up again - one provocation, another, and on it goes. […]So, without the Minsk framework, everything will work out in such a vacuum that it is simply fraught and dangerous,” says the internationalist.
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