Recent Posts
- State Cybersecurity Policy: Ukraine and International Experience 29.03.2025
- Ukraine recovery should be based on development of territorial communities, innovations, involvement of professional domestic community – results of ESUR forum 29.06.2023
- Ukraine repatriates five more seriously wounded Russian POWs 10.04.2023
- Rada intends to include history of Ukraine, foreign language in final certification for general secondary education 10.04.2023
- Rada terminates protocol on joint anti-terrorist measures in CIS territories for Ukraine 10.04.2023
Ukrainian MFA: Russia hides destruction of infrastructure of peace process under the guise of noisy attacks
KYIV. Sept 17 (Interfax-Ukraine) – The Russian Federation continues to mask its unwillingness to fulfill its obligations behind public rhetoric, Oleh Nikolenko, spokesperson for the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has said.
"Under the guise of the noisy attacks of the Russian Foreign Ministry, a purposeful policy of destroying the infrastructure of the peace process is quite clearly visible: sabotaging the implementation of the Minsk agreements and the results of the summit of the leaders of the Normandy format, blocking the work of the Trilateral Contact Group, obstructing the activities of the OSCE, tightening the noose around the neck of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians in the temporarily occupied territories. The latest examples of the dominance of logic in Moscow for further escalation are the illegal organization of elections to the Russian State Duma in Crimea and Donbas, repression against the Crimean Tatars," Nikolenko told Interfax-Ukraine on Friday.
He stressed that the keys to peace in Ukraine lie in the Kremlin.
"But there is not enough bold political will there to move forward. When it appears, the rest of the issues will turn into a technical process," the spokesperson said.
He added that the Russian Federation can already take the first step and decide to meet in the framework of the Foreign Ministers of the Normandy Four.
"Russia can already take the first step: to decide on a meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the Normandy Four. The time to move from words to actions is long overdue. Our state is ready for progress. At the same time, we clearly understand who we are dealing with. Therefore, we rely both on diplomacy and the army," Nikolenko stressed.
Earlier, official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova said that those "who supervise Ukraine in the West" should suppress "Kyiv’s militaristic rhetoric."
