A man in his destroyed house in the town of Popasnaya. Archival photoLUGANSK, May 11.Ukraine cuts off all opportunities for peace, Rodion Miroshnik, Ambassador of the Lugansk People's Republic to Russia, said in an interview with RIA Novosti.
"Ukraine, even the Russian Federation, declares that that is not interested in negotiating the establishment of peace and the cessation of hostilities", — said Miroshnik.
He clarified that Kyiv had the same position, only in a covert form, and at the Minsk talks. «Now it (Ukraine. — Ed.) basically cuts off all opportunities to achieve peace, save people's lives, stop bloodshed and avoid completely unnecessary victims. Ukraine refuses this both in relations with the Russian Federation, and all the more, in possible relations with us (DPR and LPR. — Ed.), which in fact do not exist today,» the source of the agency explained. Since February 24, Russia has been conducting a special operation to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine s. As Vladimir Putin stressed, its goal is «to protect people who have been subjected to abuse and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» The agency called the liberation of Donbass the main goal of the operation.