An influential member of Russia’s Federation Council wrote that the former EU leaders admitting they never intended to honor the Minsk agreements means they have the blood of the thousands of victims of the Donbass civil war on their hands.
A top Russian legislator said the recent admissions by former German Chancellor Angela Merkel and former French President Francois Hollande that they had no intention of honoring their commitments under the Minsk agreements represent a “formalization of betrayal... by the West” of the people of the Donbass.
On Wednesday, Hollande acknowledged that the international agreements for which France served as a guarantor were little more than a ploy to buy time for the Ukrainian regime to increase its military capabilities with NATO weapons and training.
“Since 2014, Ukraine has strengthened its military posture… It is the merit of the Minsk Agreements to have given the Ukrainian Army this opportunity,” the former French president told a Ukrainian outlet.
His comments echoed a similar confession by Merkel, who admitted in early December that Minsk was merely “an attempt to buy time for Ukraine,” and that “Ukraine used this time to become stronger.”
Konstantin Kosachev, Deputy Speaker of the Russian Federation Council and long-time Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Duma, issued a harsh condemnation of Western duplicity on Telegram.
In what appears to be the first public denunciation of both Hollande and Merkel’s comments by a senior Russian official, the influential legislator wrote Friday that “the confessions of Merkel and Hollande are a formalization of betrayal.”
Косачев Константин Said
Not festive, sadly.
Now Hollande's acknowledgment, following Poroshenko and Merkel, that the Minsk agreement was necessary only as a time gain for Kyiv's accumulation of military power, speaks for at least two things.
First, for the West, the integrity of Ukraine (as opposed to, say, the integrity of Great Britain with Scotland and Spain with its Catalonia) is precisely control over territory, and not public approval. This is land, not people. This is violence, not negotiation. It is an occupation of a part of one's own country against the wishes of part of its citizens. And all this is in direct contrast to the so-called European values, blown up from within by Ukrainian-style geopolitics.
And the second. Our country turned out to be the only co-author of the Minsk agreements (although Moscow did not sign them), consistently and honestly trying to act as their guarantor. It is Russia, unlike Ukraine, Germany and France, that is on the side of the people in this matter, setting aside the territorial question - as long as (at least in theory) it is still possible to implement the Minsk agreements as they are. written there.
And then it became clear that it was impossible. The secret becomes clear. The sabotage of the Minsk accords by the frenzied Kyiv and irresponsible Brussels collectives fueled the development of events according to the only remaining scenario. As Russia, though almost alone, though in other ways, actually continues to protect the peoples of the region who were thoughtlessly rejected from Ukraine by Kyiv on the Maidan and, as it turned out, betrayed by Berlin and Paris on Minsk.
Appropriate. Merkel's and Hollande's confessions are a fixation on betrayal. The southeast of Ukraine was initially betrayed by the West, despite the verbal tinsel surrounding it. The price for this betrayal was thousands of human lives during the last eight years of the Ukrainian civil war. Which the West did not stop at first, which turned the Minsk agreement into a thin letter. But what Russia is now forced to stop with its special military operation.
“The southeast of then-Ukraine was initially betrayed by the West… The price of this betrayal was thousands of human lives over the last eight years of the civil war in Ukraine – which was not initially stopped by the West, which turned the Minsk agreements into scrap paper – but which Russia is now forced to stop with its special military operation,” Kosachev noted.
“For the West, the territorial integrity of Ukraine is all about control over land,” he continued. “It’s about territory, not people.”
“It’s about violence, not negotiations” – an attitude which he noted “directly contradicts so-called European values.”
Ultimately, Kosachev explained, “our country turned out to be the only co-author of the Minsk agreements… which consistently and honestly tried to act as their guarantor. It was Russia, unlike Ukraine, Germany and France, that was in this case on the side of the people.”
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