Minsk agreements signed in February 2015 is a dead-end road unless Russia doesn’t observe them. Bilateral negotiations on Donbas between Ukraine and Russia should be initiated instead.
On August 8, the Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office announced official charges against 18 leading government and military authorities of the Russian Federation, Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko informed during a press briefing
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.
President Poroshenko has invited the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to increase the number of OSCE monitors on the administrative border with Crimea and to request Russia to let the monitors make inspections in Crimea.
On July 28, Russian President Vladimir Putin included the so-called ‘Crimean Federal District’ into Southern Federal District and dismissed Russian Ambassador to Ukraine Mikhail Zurabov.
Speaking during the PACE meeting, Savchenko uttered that Putin is to be held responsible for the abductions of Ukrainians and Crimean Tatars from the annexed Crimea.