Ukraine’s representative in the security subgroup of the Trilateral Contact Group Yevhen Marchuk warned of a risk of the effective termination of the Normandy Format.
Russia uses provocations in Crimea to convince the world that the ‘Normandy format’ is ineffective and to make the West lift sanctions, Deputy Prime Minister on European Integration Ivanna Klympush–Tsintsadze said on Hromadske.
The Ukrainian side is constantly raising the issue of violation of the ceasefire and calls on Russia to adhere to the Minsk Agreements during the meetings of the Trilateral contact group, the press secretary of the former president Leonid Kuchma Darka Olifer says.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin believes that the logic behind the roadmap to implement the Minsk Agreements is to clearly identify the sequence of security-related measures.
President Petro Poroshenko announced the start of consultations with foreign partners to develop a ‘roadmap’ for implementation of the Minsk Agreements.
President Petro Poroshenko has forwarded information on the state of implementation of the Minsk Agreements to EU leaders while they are considering whether to continue sanctions on Russia.
Poroshenko stated that the restoration of Ukraine’s control over its borders on the temporarily occupied territories is a key to carry out the Minsk Agreement, as he greeted the Ukrainian border guards.
According to the Russian president, in order to achieve an effective ceasefire in Donbas, Ukraine needs to decentralize its regions and pass the Law on the Special Status of Donbas, as well as grant amnesty to militants.