Kozak told how Yanukovych scared Ukraine
Russia proposed to include former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych in the negotiation process on Donbass in 2019, when the Ukrainian delegation tried to break the existing format of meetings.
Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office Dmitry Kozak spoke about this today at a press conference in Moscow, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
“Both Ukraine, Germany and France are trying to bring us back to the discussion of the fundamental causes of the crisis, and, based on their ideas, try to resolve it. We believe that the discussion of fundamental reasons ended in 2015 with the signing of the Minsk agreements...
In the summer of 2019, the Ukrainian side proposed that, “based on the fundamental causes of the crisis,” the party to the negotiations should not be the LDPR authorities, but the deputies who were elected in the last Ukrainian elections.
Well let's try. Only if you are now offered, “based on the fundamental causes of the crisis,” to bring the president who was elected in 2010 to the negotiating table. Immediately the desire to discuss the “fundamental causes of the crisis” disappeared,” Kozak said.
He recounted another episode of the negotiations on March 29, when the Ukrainian side insisted on the wording “side of the conflict” without clarification. Then Kozak invited them to choose “sides” from the options: Russia, France, USA. In response, the Ukrainians said that they knew the parties, but could not write them down. This remained in the protocol.
“They love to practice law. They reach the point of legal cretinism. Nobody forbids us to withdraw from the Minsk agreements. They have a right. They are not happy with this. “We are committed to the Minsk agreements.” If this line of Ukraine and its partners continues, it will be impossible to agree on anything,” Kozak said.
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