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| Zakharova: Ukraine constantly evades its responsibility to signed agreements |
| 2021-12-24 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. Artillery fire from the Ukrainian armed forces has been reduced of late. [NewsFrontInfo] The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, commented on the joint statement of the Minister of Defense and the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine following the meeting of the Trilateral Contact Group on Donbass, as reported on the agency's website. She recalled that measures to strengthen the ceasefire were signed by Kiev, Donetsk and Lugansk with the mediation of Russia and the OSCE and entered into force on July 27, 2020. "All this time, Donetsk and Lugansk have observed and continue to comply with all obligations under this document and have invariably called for the same Kiev in the negotiations. In turn, Ukraine constantly evaded its implementation, continued shelling of the territory of Donbass, in September 2020 it stopped the direct interaction with Donbass provided for by the "measures" to promptly prevent firefights," Zakharova emphasized. According to Zakharova, at the end of September, the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) Valery Zaluzhny made a statement allowing servicemen to open fire at their own discretion. This decision was a way out of the agreements reached. Summing up, the representative of the Foreign Ministry stressed that Russia expects that Kiev will fulfill all obligations to ensure a "sustainable ceasefire in the east of Ukraine." Related: Donbass: 2021-12-20 40 Turkish drones shot down by Pantsir complexes in Libya and Syria Donbass: 2021-12-11 Biden's Nord Stream 2 Move Opens The Door To A Russian Invasion Into Ukraine Donbass: 2021-12-11 Negotiations between Putin and Biden: what did the leaders of the superpowers agree on? |
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