Ukrainian servicemen unload British-supplied anti-tank weapons at Boryspil Airport near KievDONETSK, Feb. 3The plenipotentiary of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic in the contact group for the settlement in Donbass, the head of the DPR Foreign Ministry, Natalia Nikonorova, is counting on the reaction of the countries-guarantors of the Minsk agreements to the supply of weapons by the West to Kiev. Earlier, the Ukrainian Defense Ministry reported that two advisers from the United States began to work in the ministry on a permanent basis . The head of EU diplomacy, Josep Borrell, said that the European Union was preparing to send a mission to Ukraine to train «high-level personnel» for the Ukrainian army. And the Canadian TV channel Global News, citing unnamed sources, reported that a small contingent of military Canadian special operations forces was deployed in Ukraine. «The presence of foreign armed persons, armed formations is also a violation of these very Minsk agreements. The withdrawal of any foreign armed formations What is the collective West doing? Everything is exactly the opposite: these weapons and formations are supplied to Ukraine,» Nikonorova said in an interview with RIA Novosti. According to her, this is a question for the countries-guarantors of the Minsk agreements. appropriate influence has been exerted, pressure has been exerted on Kiev so that these violations stop, as well as the pumping of Ukraine with weapons. It is necessary to return Ukraine to a peaceful negotiation track,» Nikonorova stressed. its military, which directly violates the Minsk agreements and negatively affects the settlement in Donbass. In addition to the Americans, Great Britain, Canada, France, Poland, Turkey, Lithuania, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Romania and Estonia are involved in deliveries totaling billions of dollars. The United States supplied Ukraine with Javelin anti-tank missile systems, patrol boats, sniper rifles and counter-battery radar stations, Great Britain — NLAW anti-tank grenade launchers, Turkey — Bayraktar TB2 attack drones. Ukraine and the UK signed a memorandum that provides for the joint design and construction of warships on the territory of the two countries and the construction of two bases for the Ukrainian Navy. and the Netherlands discussed the supply of weapons to Kiev
