Aleksey Arestovich, an adviser to the Ukrainian delegation in the trilateral contact group on resolving the situation in Donbass, said that Russia is forcing information that Ukraine is allegedly preparing for an offensive in Donbass.
Since 2014, Russia has been using fakes in Donbass that Ukraine is allegedly preparing for an offensive. About this in an interview with the TV channel “House”, which was published on March 15, said the adviser to the Ukrainian delegation in the trilateral contact group on resolving the situation in Donbass, Oleksiy Arestovich.
According to him, this is an element of media and information pressure, including on the population.
“I do not see the prospect of resolving the issue by military means – neither from our side, nor from the Russian side. There will be a political and diplomatic path. And we adhere to it. It can be more or less tough (soft negotiation or tough sanctions), but as for the military options, they always, of course, remain “in the folder” of possible solutions, “Arestovich said.
He said that Ukraine is aimed at resolving the conflict politically and diplomatically, primarily for security reasons.
“So that our civilians on both sides of the front do not have shells falling on their heads, so that there is no war in large urban agglomerations, with the prospect of hundreds and thousands of civilian casualties. We are not going to kill our citizens, we are not Russians. We will not bomb Donbass. as they did with Chechnya, demolishing everything there to zero, “Arestovich said.
At the same time, he stressed that if a military solution is imposed on Ukraine, “we will answer in such a way that it will not seem a little.”
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 the 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.
July 22, 2020 Trilateral Contact Group agreed on a full and comprehensive ceasefire in Donbass since midnight on July 27. Ukrainian side regularly reports violations by the militants of the ceasefire regime.
At the beginning of 2021, the situation in Donbass worsened. The Joint Forces operation headquarters has repeatedly reported that the enemy is firing sniper fire. On February 4, Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said that in Donbas “there is no peace process anymore”… “There are sniper pairs, mortars, shelling. The war is underway,” he said.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky on February 11, during a visit to Donetsk region, said that the escalation of the situation in Donbass associated with Russia’s attempts to put pressure on Ukraine at the talks in the trilateral contact group on the settlement of the conflict.
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