The President's Office is looking for competent legal solutions to end the war in Donbas and preserve Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity.
The so-called "joint inspection" of Ukrainian positions near the village of Shumy in Donbas agreed on at a special meeting of the Minsk Trilateral Contact Group (TCG) has been suspended.
"There will be no inspection today. It has not been cancelled – it has been suspended," a source in the President's Office said on September 10.
"Representatives of the 'DPR' and 'LPR' ['Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics'] terrorist organizations have been members of the JCCC [Joint Center for Control and Coordination] since 2014. Their participation in the negotiations is stipulated in the Minsk agreements signed by [former President Petro] Poroshenko, now they are in the TCG. Although it is not legally binding," the source said.
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"But something needs to be done with the achievements signed by Petro Poroshenko. Let's remember that in 2015, following the results of negotiations between the leaders of illegal armed formations, the signatures of terrorists [Alexander] Zakharchenko and [Igor] Plotnitsky were put under the Package of Measures for the Implementation of the Minsk Agreements. Poroshenko skillfully forgot about those decisions, with which the current government has to do something, and now he is rocking the public with manipulations. And this is just one example," the source says.
The President's Office is looking for competent legal solutions to end the war in Donbas and preserve Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity, according to the source.
"Although the former government did everything to make the road to peace super difficult," the source said.