Fighter of the People's Militia of the LPRLUGANSK, Jan 25 Kiev is not interested in a real de-escalation of the situation near the line contact in the Donbass, said the press secretary of the delegation of the self-proclaimed Lugansk People's Republic at the talks on the settlement of the conflict, Maria Kovshar. On Tuesday, talks were held between the humanitarian, political, economic and security subgroup of the contact group on Donbass. A videoconference of the contact group will take place on Wednesday.» Over the four hours of work (subgroup on security — ed.), the Ukrainian side once again demonstrated a complete lack of interest in a real de-escalation on the demarcation line and a desire to eliminate key disagreements on the coordination mechanism (on a truce in Donbass — ed. .). At the same time, Mr. Polishchuk (Kyiv's representative in the security subgroup Oleksandr Polishchuk — ed.) has already routinely depicted «titanic efforts» to imitate Ukraine's «desire» for peace,» Kovshar said in a statement provided to journalists. According to Kovshar, the coordinator of the subgroup, the head of the OSCE SMM, Yashar Halit Cevik, called on the parties to the conflict «to find a way to restore the lost trust and the mechanism of direct interaction that functioned before» before the kidnapping by Kiev of the officer of the LPR representation in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the ceasefire in October 2021.
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