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We have already essentially started forming the national team that will develop the appropriate action plans to ensure proper control over a possible ceasefire. This is a very complex process."
Quote from Sybiha
Now everything will be directed towards ensuring that the Ukrainian side has its teams and relevant preparations ready. I mean, including the future vision of agreements or a plan of action to achieve a just, lasting peace for Ukraine. And, of course, the parameters and scope of the security guarantees package for Ukraine."
Quote from SybihaIn order to avoid possible provocations from the Russian side, we need to be prepared,
Andrii Sybiha told journalists on Friday, announcing
Putin seeks to continue the war. The rest of his words are just a smokescreen",
On Thursday, he had posted on X ... echoing the response of President Volodymyr ZelenskiyEveryone knew that Russia was involved, but for the sake of the negotiations, this was not recognized,
said Dumoulin
Ukraine was saying, we need security first and then we can implement the political provisions. Russia was saying, once political provisions are implemented, separatists will be satisfied and will stop fighting,
said Dumoulin, now director of the Wider Europe program at the European Council on Foreign RelationsThe fundamental contradiction of Minsk,
wrote Regenbrecht,
The crisis cannot be resolved by military means,
said then-German Chancellor Angela Merkel, in a speech at the 2015 Munich Security Conference, which coincided with the talks on Minsk IIThat makes Ukraine’s situation now very precarious,
said Sabine Fischer, senior fellow at the German Institute for International and Security AffairsIt’s unclear whether they’ll succeed.”
Her assessment of those diplomatic efforts was blunt
Ukraine actually never had stable traditions of real statehood.”
In his speech on February 21, 2022, three days before the full-scale invasion, Putin described Ukraine as “an inalienable part of our own history, culture and spiritual space,” before claimingBasically the main goal, both for France and Germany, but also for the Ukrainians, was to end the fighting,
she told CNNComprehensive ceasefire agreements are not negotiated quickly… they’re very complicated, many intricacies… And I don’t think that this is what the Trump administration is aiming for,
she told CNNRussia through its proxies, but also directly, was in a much stronger position on the battlefield, and so could increase the intensity of fighting to put additional pressure on the negotiations.”
But, ... she addedI told President Trump about this,
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an interview last month with CNN affiliate CNN Turk
There are so many obstacles that need to be dealt with before we can get to peace.”
As Foreman concludes
You have to trust – and verify, ... The problem is that, for Ukraine, ceasefire monitoring has very bad associations because of what happened after the Minsk agreements”.
he says, addingMonitoring has to begin immediately,
says John Foreman, a former British defence attache to Moscow and Kyiv
The demilitarisation of Ukraine was one of Russia’s war aims and this must not succeed."
Quote from Scholz