Vice Prime Minister – Minister for the Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine Oleksiy Reznikov believes that there are two “keys” to peace in Donbass.
In 2021, changes may begin that will lead to the de-occupation of Donbass. Vice Prime Minister – Minister for Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine Oleksiy Reznikov expressed this opinion to the TV channel “House” in an interview that was posted on April 3rd.
“I think this year there will be some very serious tectonic changes in Russia. I am absolutely serious. The fact that the second key to peace in the Russian-Ukrainian war on the territory of Donetsk and Luhansk regions lies in the Kremlin, it is understandable, it is not news. [Первый ключ] – with us, of course. There are two keys. Therefore, in order to open the cabinet and get the document “peace treaty” out of it, actions of both the Russians and ours are needed, “the Deputy Prime Minister said.
He stressed that about the future tectonic changes in Russia – his “deep feeling, not a conviction.”
“And this will initiate changes. But full-fledged reintegration itself, restoration of everything-everything will take decades. I have always said about this: 25 years at least for full-fledged reintegration. But do not confuse de-occupation with reintegration. Reintegration presupposes a mental return of people. Reintegration presupposes demining. territories, and these are decades. The economy should be restored: to build new factories, new schools, new thermal power plants there. And many other things. It will take decades, “Reznikov explained.
He noted that after the de-occupation of Donbass, he will visit the first Gorlovka in the Donetsk region, and then Luhansk.
In 2014, Russia occupied Crimea and launched an armed aggression in eastern Ukraine. The fighting is between the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the one hand and the Russian army and Russian-backed militants who control parts of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions on the other. Officially, the Russian Federation does not recognize its invasion of Ukraine, despite the facts and evidence presented by Ukraine.
Negotiations on the settlement of the conflict in Donbass are being held in the trilateral contact group in Minsk (Ukraine, Russia, OSCE), as well as in the Normandy format – with the participation of representatives of Ukraine, France, Germany and Russia.
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