A serviceman of the People's Militia of the DPR at a mobilization point in Donetsk. Archive photoMOSCOW, Feb. 21If Kiev and the LPR and the DPR agree to convene a meeting of the contact group on Donbass, Russia will also agree to participate in it, a source in Moscow told RIA Novosti.
"If Kiev and Donbass will agree to convene a meeting of the CG (contact group), Russia, of course, will also participate in it", the source said.
He explained that «the functions of a mediator oblige this.» In recent days, the situation in the Donbass has seriously aggravated — Kiev ignores all agreements, has concentrated most of the army on the line of contact and regularly fires at the militias, including with the use of prohibited equipment. Due to the threat of Ukraine's invasion in the self-proclaimed republics, women, children and the elderly began to be evacuated, and general mobilization was announced.»More and more people.» What refugees from Donbass facedThe internally displaced persons enter the Rostov region, many regions of Russia have reported their readiness to accept residents of Donbass. thousands were hurt. De-escalation is being discussed at contact group meetings. 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. /2022/02/ed4545afd7fb057796ae9ba6aecee248.jpg» />February 19, 11:15 InfographicHow the situation in Donbas developedInfographicViewPosted by: Nikita Stoma