“Let's remember what the Minsk agreements are.
The base is the decision of the UN Security Council, where the parameters of the special status are spelled out.
Actually, a special status is what this is all about.
What is a special status, about which there is even a law passed?
I am the author of this law, co-author together with Ukrainian comrades and with those who then fought, because it was their successes of that time that allowed this agreement to be concluded quite successfully, in my opinion, for Russia and for the entire Russian world, "he said.
According to him, giving Donbass the appropriate status within the framework of the Minsk agreements means that “the laws of Ukraine do not apply in Donbass”.
“I repeat, this is the law of Ukraine that the laws of Ukraine do not apply to Donbass.
This is the main thing in these agreements ... The maximum that Ukraine can claim, in my opinion, under these agreements, is the so-called, what I call symbolic sovereignty over Donbass.
It is difficult to give an example here, but it is possible.
For example, Canada, Australia.
There, the head of state is the British monarch, but in fact, as we understand it, this is about nothing.
But it is written there, ”he explained.
Earlier, the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy said at a press conference that the issue of the settlement in Donbass could be submitted to an all-Ukrainian referendum.