Fthe act of issuing 630 thousand Russian passports to the DPR and LPR is a reason for changing the agreements, said the head of the NSDC Danilov. He called a strange situation when the holders of such documents participate in local elections in the Donbass
Alexey Danilov
The issue of Russian passports to residents of the unrecognized republics of Donbass is the basis for the revision of the Minsk agreements. This was stated by the Secretary of the National Security Council of Ukraine Oleksiy Danilov.
“Issuing passports is a fundamental thing regarding changing conditions. 630 thousand passports issued by Russia as ausweis to citizens who are actually in the reservation, which was created by the president of the Russian Federation, “this is an occasion to start negotiations [on the revision of the Minsk agreements],” Danilov said at a briefing on Friday.
According to him, to hold elections in the Donbas (the election procedure is one of the points of the Minsk agreements).), when residents have Russian passports, —«a strange situation & raquo;.
The head of the National Security and Defense Council noted that the Minsk agreements cannot be implemented in their current form, they require revision, since there have been major changes since their signing.
Danilov said that Kiev has fulfilled its part of the agreements reached at the Normandy Four summit in Paris in December 2019. “Russia does not want to fulfill its part of the agreements. They believe that they are not a party to this process, which is completely absurd, ” he stressed.
The Minsk Agreements-a document agreed in 2015 by Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France aimed at resolving the armed conflict in the Donbas. The agreements imply a cease-fire and the withdrawal of heavy weapons, the exchange of prisoners between Ukraine and the DPR with the LPR, the decentralization of power in the Donbass and the holding of local elections there. None of the main conditions of the Minsk agreements has been fully fulfilled in six years.
In April, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said that the Minsk agreements were outdated and should be reviewed. “The Minsk process should be more flexible in the current situation. It should serve the purposes of the present, not the past, ” the head of state said.
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The head of the Ukrainian delegation to the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG, which oversees the implementation of the Minsk agreements), ex-President Leonid Kravchuk, said that Kiev may withdraw from this format if it turns out that other parties to the negotiations are trying to thwart the main goal of peace in the Donbas.
In turn, Russia has repeatedly stated that Ukraine is trying in every possible way to delay the negotiation process, lead it to a dead end and generally not fulfill its part of the agreements. Vladimir Putin said in June that the current Kiev authorities simply have no desire to implement the Minsk agreements.