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Kiev recognizes Donbas separatists as interlocutors

2020-03-22T19:15:26.458Z


The Ukrainian president, under pressure from Russia, agrees to negotiate as equals with the military factions in the east of the country.


The coronavirus sometimes has a good back, especially when it allows unpopular measures to be passed on quietly. Case study in Kiev, where, on March 11, the same day that he put his country in quarantine because of Covid-19, President Volodymyr Zelensky urged the Ukrainian State to sign a document which explicitly recognizes as interlocutors legitimate policies the self-proclaimed separatist entities of Donetsk and Luhansk, a signature under Russian diplomatic and military pressure.

On March 11, a further meeting of the trilateral contact group on the peaceful settlement of the conflict in Donbas was held in Minsk. The routine, for six years, for this seized mechanism. Except that this time, a cannon shot intervened, which profoundly redefined the terms of the Donbass war, whose toll is approaching 14,000 dead in six years. Participants signed a document creating a political "advisory board" to the Minsk II contact group, in which

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Source: lefigaro

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