DISINFO: Kyiv is not fulfilling its commitments under the Minsk agreements
SUMMARY
Kyiv is not fulfilling its commitments under the Minsk agreements and may have plans to resolve its internal conflict in the east by military means.
RESPONSE
Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative claiming that Ukraine is not willing to implement the Minsk agreements and that the conflict in Donbas is an internal conflict.
Ukraine has announced a truce several times since the war broke out in Donbas in 2014, and the illegal DNR and LNR pseudo-republics have been continually violating it. On top of that, separatists often use the civilian population as a human shield by shelling Ukrainian positions from residential areas to accuse Ukrainian troops of possible civilian victims when they strike back.
Moscow has been insisting since the outbreak of the hostilities that it is a mediator in the peace process rather than a party to the conflict, when in fact it has been blocking peace activities instead. Moreover, it is internationally recognised as a warring side in the Donbas war. The leaders of the Group of Seven, G7, who met in Cornwall on 11-13 June 2021, said in a communiqué that “Russia is a party to the conflict in Eastern Ukraine, not a mediator.”
By making statements alleging that Ukraine has done nothing to implement the Minsk agreements, the Russian authorities and the separatists it backs are delaying a peace settlement.
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