Leonid Slutsky, Chairman of the State Duma Committee on International AffairsMOSCOW, February 9The head of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs, Leonid Slutsky, called the statement of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmitry Kuleba that Kiev would not comply with the agreements on the settlement of the conflict in Donbass on Russia’s terms, another masking of the sabotage of the Minsk agreements. Earlier, Kuleba said that Kiev does not refuse to comply with the Minsk agreements on the settlement of the conflict in Donbass, but will not fulfill them on the terms of the Russian Federation. -channel. The parliamentarian added that «inventing some kind of» Moscow version «of the agreements is another cheap disguise for the sabotage of Minsk-2.» agreements,” he stated.
Kyiv will not fulfill the Minsk agreements on Moscow's terms, Kuleba saidWestern politicians, including US President Joe Biden, have repeatedly spoken out in support of the Minsk agreements. Biden, following talks with the Russian President in Geneva in June 2021, said that he had agreed to support the Minsk agreements at a meeting with Putin — «we will continue diplomacy along the line of the Minsk agreements.» Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov later said that Biden himself told the Russian president that he wanted to help with the implementation of the Minsk agreements on Donbass, including with the autonomous status of the region. In addition, according to Lavrov, US Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and CIA Director William Burns, during contacts with the Russian leadership, directly confirmed the need to implement the Minsk agreements, including the special status of Donbass.
Kiev refuses direct dialogue with Donbass, Gryzlov said
