MOSCOW, July 20-RIA Novosti. The approaches of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky in resolving the conflict in the Donbas have become worse than those of the previous head of the Ukrainian state Petro Poroshenko, said Dmitry Kozak, deputy head of the presidential administration of Russia.
According to Kozak, " Poroshenko's team, in any case, was not so contradictory, while Zelensky's team "shoots itself in the foot", managing to regularly declare its commitment to the Minsk agreements, and that "the Minsk agreements are a noose around Ukraine's neck and hinder the settlement of the conflict."
"Moreover, the Ukrainian president stated that" agreements are necessary not for the settlement of the conflict, but only for the preservation of sanctions against Russia, " he said.
Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin in his article "On the historical unity of Russians and Ukrainians" said that despite the election promises of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, nothing has changed, and in some ways the situation in the country and around the Donbass has also degraded.
In April 2014, the Ukrainian authorities launched a military operation against the self-proclaimed LPR and DPR, which declared independence after the coup in Ukraine in February 2014. According to the latest UN data, about 13 thousand people became victims of the conflict. The issue of resolving the situation in the Donbas is discussed in particular during the meetings of the Minsk contact group, which since September 2014 has already adopted three documents regulating steps to de-escalate the conflict. However, even after the truce agreements between the parties to the conflict, skirmishes continue.
