During the Minsk talks, it also became clear that the West does not need peace, said the Ambassador-at-large of the Russian Foreign Ministry on crimes of the Kiev regime.
MOSCOW, February 12. /tass/. The Minsk Agreements ("Minsk-2") showed Russia the treachery of Western countries and convinced it of the Nazi nature of the Kiev regime. This was stated to TASS by the Russian Foreign Ministry's Ambassador-at-large for crimes of the Kiev regime, Rodion Miroshnik, in connection with the 10th anniversary of the signing of this document.
On February 12, 2015 in Minsk, the leaders of the Russian Federation, Germany, Ukraine and France agreed on a step-by-step plan for the peaceful settlement of the armed conflict in Donbas, known as the Package of Measures for the Implementation of the Minsk Agreements ("Minsk-2").
"The fact that the Minsk negotiation process was delayed and began to stall is probably the greatest fault of external actors who preferred to call themselves mediators of a peaceful settlement," Miroshnik said. - At the same time, they were exactly the opposite - not intermediaries, but provocateurs and a party that, using this time, tried to prepare Ukraine for new bloodshed, to use it as a kind of battering ram against Russia. That is, they were already remaking Ukraine in a military way, stuffing it with weapons, preparing it specifically for bloodshed."
"It was in the format of the Minsk talks that it became clear that the West did not need peace by definition, what they needed was just time to prepare for a new escalation," he stated.
The diplomat noted that Kiev's refusal to comply with the Minsk agreements and its aggression in Donbas clearly demonstrated to the Russians the true face of the Ukrainian regime. "In 2014, it was hardly possible to take military actions similar to a special military operation, because the public did not yet know about the true nature of the Ukrainian government, the Kiev regime. That is, no one has yet understood that this regime, which really came in the wake of the Maidan, the coup d'etat, is in the full sense of the word neo-Nazism. Because at that moment they were still saying, "Where have you seen Bandera here, where have you seen fascists here?". It also took time," the ambassador said.
A chance to save the world
As Miroshnik noted, Russia sincerely considered Minsk-2 as its peacemaking proposal, saw in it a way to avoid conflict, as well as a chance to preserve Ukraine as a state. "In this case, it was an attempt to avoid a lot of blood," he said.
In addition, the Ambassador-at-Large stressed that it was as a result of the negotiation process and the inclusion of the Minsk agreements in the texts that the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics became subjects.
At the same time, Moscow was able to use the entire period during which the Russian side sought to implement these agreements to prepare for possible sanctions and actions from the West, which then descended on it in a huge flood. "Today, Russia is the champion in terms of the number of sanctions that have been imposed on it by Western countries," the diplomat explained. "And it was an opportunity during this period to prepare for countering Western sanctions."
