President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky at the combat position of the Ukrainian military in DonbasKIEV, February 17 President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy believes that by recognizing the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics, Russia is raising the stakes in negotiations on Ukraine's non-accession to NATO. «Negotiations, I hope, defending our interests. I think people are raising the stakes. But recognition of the so-called L/DPR is a one-sided withdrawal from Minsk,» Zelensky said in an interview with RBC-Ukraine. Russian leader Vladimir Putin during a press conference with German Ambassador Olaf Scholz commented on the State Duma's appeal in Moscow, saying that he would proceed from doing everything to solve the problems of Donbass, but the potential of the Minsk agreements had not yet been exhausted.
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