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For: EFE Updated 19 May 2022, 04: 01 am EDT
The Ukrainian government is no longer satisfied with negotiating a ceasefire with Russia to momentarily stop the invasion of the country, wants the invading army to leave all its territory.
“ Do not offer us a ceasefire: it is impossible without the total withdrawal of Russian troops “, he wrote in his account from Twitter Mykhailo Podoliak, adviser to the Ukrainian president, Volodimir Zelensky, and one of the members of the Ukrainian negotiating group.
Do not offer us a ceasefire – this is impossible without total Russian troops withdrawal. Ukraine is not interested in new “Minsk” and the war renewal in a few years. Until 🇷🇺 is ready to fully liberate occupied territories, our negotiating team is weapons, sanctions and money.
— Михайло Подоляк (@Podolyak_M) May 19, 2022
“Ukrainian society is not interested in a new ‘Minsk’ and the return of the war in a few years. Until (Russia) is ready to completely liberate our lands, our negotiation platform is weapons, sanctions and money”, added the presidential adviser.
With these words, Podoliak was referring to the Minks protocol, an agreement signed in 2014 that was trying to put an end to the conflict unleashed in the pro-Russian Ukrainian regions of Lugansk and Donetsk, in the east of the country.
The protocol was signed in the Belarusian capital by representatives of Russia and the two regions, self-proclaimed independent republics, as well as Ukraine.
Russia was annexed in 2014 the Crimean peninsula, territory which he has placed under his administration, while he has persisted the separatist conflict in Lugansk and Donetsk, which make up Donbas, where pro-Russian guerrillas operate, aided by Moscow. EFE
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