The Ukrainian president has called to negotiate directly with Moscow to end the conflict in the Donbass, while 114,000 Russian soldiers are massed at the borders.
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While Ukraine faces, for the second time in less than six months, at an escalation with Russia at its borders, the president, Volodyymyr Zelensky, intends to show that he is doing front. Wednesday 1 Er December, he called for “direct negotiations” with Moscow to put an end to the warranted war since 2014 in the Donbass, in the east of the country.
“I’m not afraid of a direct conversation with [Russian President, Vladimir Putin],” he rolled out. Moscow, who submits the Prorussian separatists, has always denied being an actor of the conflict, in which more than 13,000 people perished in seven years. Asked about the Chairman’s statements, the Kremlin spokesman, Dmitri Peskov, confined himself to repeating, as usual, that it was a “civil war” which “can not be stopped only by negotiations between Ukrainians “.
The speech of Volodyymyr Zelensky, a former actor elected in 2019 on his promise to fight against corruption and to make peace in the Donbass, is a “challenge launched in Putin, Analysis Petro Oleschuk, researcher at the National University Taras-Chevchenko, Kiev. It’s a way of showing that he is ready for anything and that he is afraid of anyone. It is also a reminder to the Western partners of Ukraine they owe the ‘help more “.
” Sow panic in Ukraine “
The Head of State was speaking to Parliament on occasion – very symbolic – 30 years of the referendum on the independence of Ukraine, on extreme blood pressure with Moscow. For more than three weeks, Kiev, Brussels, Washington and NATO denounce the suspicious activity of Russian troops at Ukrainian borders and accuse Russia to prepare a military invasion.
According to Kiev, Moscow has deployed 114,000 soldiers and equipment along his borders, in Donbass and Crimea, annexed by Russia, in 2014. “The Russian government refuses to explain its intentions and military movements “, Monday, the Ukrainian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Dmyro Kuleba. “The position of Ukraine is clear: we do not expect any military offensive in the Donbass, he added. We are determined to seek diplomatic solutions to the conflict.”
The head of the diplomacy has also returned to the resounding words held, a few days earlier, by Volodyymyr Zelansky concerning a possible “coup d’état” involving a powerful Ukrainian oligarch, Rinat Akhmetov. “Russia also conducts secret operations and uses agents of influence to undermine the credibility of state institutions, broadcast” Fake News “and panic in Ukraine”, denounced Mr. Kuleba. “Ukrainian security agencies have received information on a new attempt to destabilize the situation in Ukraine. This information is currently analyzed,” he said.
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