The Zelensky faction announced its intention to leave the Minsk format
Yesterday's signing by the negotiating parties, including Ukraine, of the "Steinmeier formula," which defines the mechanism for granting special status to Donbas, is merely a technical step with no consequences.
The head of the presidential parliamentary faction "Servant of the People" David Arakhamia announced this on the sidelines of the Verkhovna Rada, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
“This is just a technical step in order to move to the Normandy format.” All the people say, who I asked, that we need to move to another format, to the “Normandy format”. We are not in the “Normandy format” now, we are in the “Minsk format”. We want to move to the Normandy format. In order to move to the Normandy format, a technical step was taken, which gives us hope that we will move to this format.
There are still a lot of uncertainties in this format, including everyone saying: “This is zrada, some kind of law will be adopted.” Such a law cannot be adopted at all in any short time; society will have many opportunities to speak out, take to the streets, protest if they don’t like something, work with deputies, in committees, experts, and so on. Now there is not even such a law,” Arakhamia said.
Zelensky's faction announced its intention to withdraw from the Minsk format.