MOSCOW, April 11 In May 2014, she was defiantly not going to seek peace in the Donbass and compromise with the future first head of the Donetsk People's Republic Alexander Zakharchenko, ex-deputy of the Rada and former candidate for the presidency of Ukraine, well-known businessman Alexander Rzhavsky, told the Russian military. audio recording of a conversation with him by Russian servicemen on March 30, before leaving Bucha. The conversation proceeded in a calm, confidential tone. On April 7, Ukrainian media and social networks reported that Rzhavsky had allegedly stopped communicating since March 4 and that on March 27 he was allegedly «shot dead by Russian invaders».
Zelensky spoke about «the only way out for Ukraine» As follows from the audio recording, Rzhavsky, in particular, told how in the late spring of 2014 he made efforts to establish peace in the Donbass, where the Kyiv regime was already conducting a punitive operation. “I met with Zakharchenko on May 21. Zakharchenko was not yet the head of the (Donetsk People’s) Republic… I tell him: ‘Why aren’t you going?’ And he replies that there is no amnesty law and he will be arrested immediately,” Rzhavsky. According to Rzhavsky, no one in Kyiv then met with Zakharchenko, although he was already «rising, going to the position» of the head of the DPR. «I said (Zakharchenko):» I'll talk. Let's embrace it, set boundaries tomorrow. The boys will know that they are protected. And then we’ll figure it out… And they turned on their glass eyes and said: “We don’t consider all this,” Rzhavsky recalled. urged the EU to dismiss Borrell because of the words about Ukraine «And then I understood. I created a committee there, invited all the political forces, all the belligerents and non-belligerents, I say — let's do it, guys. And they look with glassy eyes,» — he added. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24th. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and, as of March 25, they have completed the main tasks of the first stage — they have significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
