“We are against breeding along the entire line, because such a path is erroneous and one that contradicts the very essence of the Minsk agreements. Who should they get divorced from if they have to disarm? .. And how can you breed for years? It would have turned into a frozen conflict, ”Interfax-Ukraine quotes him.
Zagorodniuk recalled that the demarcation line is 410 km and breeding may take “years”, which “categorically does not fit Ukraine”.
“This is the wrong way, because it actually fixes an agreement with the situation ... no one talks about the return of the territories or speaks very sluggishly, and the tension from the entire international community is definitely relieved, the lifting of sanctions begins to lobby, and all this will continue for decades ", He explained.
According to the head of the Ministry of Defense, the implementation of the Minsk agreements will not require a complete separation of forces in the Donbass.
He stressed that Kiev considers only breeding at individual points as a humanitarian measure.
“So that people can cross the line of demarcation, so that there is at least some revival of the economy in this region, because it is very depressed,” Zagorodniuk concluded.
Earlier, the Russian Foreign Ministry noted that in Kiev there are “keys to all the doors leading to a settlement” in the Donbass.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, commenting on Kiev’s refusal to deploy forces along the entire line of contact in the Donbass, expressed the opinion that Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky “has some obligations to those who do not want any end to the conflict” in southeastern Ukraine.