President of Ukraine Volodymyr ZelenskyMOSCOW, 20 Feb. The offensive of the Ukrainian military in the Donbass is the last chance for Volodymyr Zelensky to fulfill the task of the West. Ilya Kiva, a member of the Verkhovna Rada from the Opposition Platform — For Life party, shared this opinion on his Telegram channel. the parliamentarian explained.
According to him, the way the Ukrainian leader comments on the appearance of the wounded among the civilian population demonstrates his cynicism. what we hear is not rapturous applause, but endless grief,» Kiva concluded.The head of the British Foreign Office called new terms for Russia's «invasion» of Ukraine. The day before, in a speech at the Munich Conference, Zelensky said that no one was killed or injured on the territory of the self-proclaimed republics in Donbass, that «they shoot themselves.» In recent days, the situation in Donbass has seriously escalated — Kiev ignores all the agreements reached earlier, has concentrated most of the army on the line of contact with the DPR and LPR, and regularly fires at the militias, including with the use of prohibited equipment. Due to the threat of invasion from Ukraine, the self-proclaimed republics began evacuating women, children and the elderly to the Rostov region, and also announced a general mobilization. The conflict in eastern Ukraine has been going on for eight years, during which time, according to the UN, more than 13 thousand people, about 44 thousand more were injured. De-escalation is being discussed at a contact group meeting in the Belarusian capital. The Minsk agreements are taken as the basis, which provide for a constitutional reform, a ceasefire and the withdrawal of heavy weapons from the line of contact. Tensions in the Donbass are escalated by the United States and other NATO countries, which pump weapons to Ukraine and send military instructors there. Moscow has repeatedly called for a halt in the supply of weapons, as this could provoke Kiev into military adventures. but there is another dangerPosted by: Vlada Ikramova