“I can say simply as a citizen. Probably, as a citizen, I am not ready to fence myself off from anyone if they vote in a referendum. I am not for simple decisions … Yes, we lost seven years. Children who were born seven years ago, already go to school in the second grade … Children who were seven years old are now teenagers. We have lost a lot mentally with our people, but this does not mean that we should refuse, “she said.
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In December 2019, Zelensky said that his team would not wait another five years to resolve the military conflict in Donbas. Plan B to resolve the situation in Donbass is a “wall”, which will mean that on the territory of CADLO there will no longer be Ukraine, but “something else”.
In an interview with “1 + 1”, which was published on June 24, 2021, Zelensky said that the “wall” is a complete breakdown of relations “in one form or another.”
“I believe that this plan may exist, but the decision to launch it should be made by the people of Ukraine. Therefore, when I said that it is very important for us to be able to express our opinion and the decision that we need a law on a referendum, this is one of the reasons. if we do not succeed in any alternative agreements with the United States, Russia, separately with Europe and in parallel with the Normandy format – will it work or not – if all this fails, then the people of Ukraine will vote for the wall“, – added the president.
In 2014, immediately after the annexation of Crimea, Russia 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.
The head of the President’s Office Andriy Yermak (then Zelensky’s assistant) spoke about the readiness to build a wall between the temporarily occupied Donbass and the territory controlled by Kiev before the Normandy Four summit in Paris on December 5, 2019. He said that this is possible if the negotiations in the Normandy format in Paris are unsuccessful.
Later, the head of the Servant of the People faction in the Verkhovna Rada, David Arakhamia, called Yermak’s words about the wall in Donbass a metaphor. “This is the worst-case scenario under consideration” – he specified.
On December 9, 2019, a summit of the leaders of the Normandy Four took place. Its final communiqué states that the parties agreed on a ceasefire, the opening of new checkpoints, the exchange of detainees according to the “all for all” formula until December 31, 2019, the disengagement of forces and resources in three new areas in the Donbass, the extension of the law “On a special procedure for local self-government in certain areas Donetsk and Luhansk regions “and the expansion of the mandate of the OSCE special monitoring mission. Arrangements were partially implemented.
Already in November 2020, the speaker of the Ukrainian delegation to the trilateral contact group on the settlement of the conflict in Donbass, Oleksiy Arestovich, said that the key thesis of the alternative plan, which discussed unofficially, – the introduction of peacekeepers into the temporarily occupied territories.
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