Having recognized the “sovereignty” of ORDLO, Moscow actually withdrew from the Minsk agreements.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi signed a decree by which he dissolved the delegation that represented our country at the negotiations of the Tripartite Contact Group regarding the settlement in Donbas.
By Decree No. 621/2022, Zelenskyy declared a number of other decrees that regulated issues to be invalid formation of the delegation and changes in its composition. The new decree enters into force from the day of its publication.
Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Russia on February 24, the need for a “peaceful settlement” of the war in Donbas, which the aggressor unleashed eight years ago, and which became a “prelude” to the current attack, fell away.
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The work of TKG was blocked by Russia even before the full-scale war. The Russian Federation constantly interrupted the meetings under fabricated pretexts and tried to force Ukraine to negotiate directly with the militants of the occupied regions of Donbas.
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