Skobeeva: invite to Kiev of a man who in the “Peacemaker” that he was killed there!
Screenshot: Russia 24 / YouTube
The new head of the Ukrainian delegation in the trilateral contact group on settling the situation in Donbas, Ukraine’s first President Leonid Kravchuk gave an interview to the Russian propaganda Olga Skobeeva in the program “60 minutes” on TV channel “Russia 24”.
A journalist asked Kravchuk the question of how he’s going to “dominate the negotiations on the Donbass,” to which the first President of Ukraine has stated that it intends to ensure that the parties to the conflict to hear each other. He said that 64 years is in power in Ukraine, to which Skobeeva said she half years.
The sides argued over the ownership of Donbass. The Russian propaganda said that, in her opinion, this area is not Ukrainian what Kravchuk asked her to listen to your President Vladimir Putin, who said that the Donbass – it is Ukraine.
Skobeeva asked Kravchuk, whether it supports the idea of direct negotiations with representatives of ORDA, to which he replied what time it is Ukraine – “let them come and we will negotiate.”
Dispute Kravchuk and Kabaevoy lasted about 20 minutes, during which the journalist tried to interrupt the interlocutor and pour the claims and “jokes” about the situation in Ukraine. The ex-President urged them not to offend and not to label, but his words didn’t change anything.
After the conversation Skobeeva accused Kravchuk of hypocrisy. “Some terrible hypocrisy,” she said. According to her, the strong impression she made of the fact that ex-President invited her to Kiev. “The man who in the “Peacemaker” that he was killed there!” – said the propaganda.
VIDEOVideo: Russia 24 / YouTube
In 2014, immediately after the annexation of Crimea, Russia has begun armed aggression in Eastern Ukraine. Fighting underway between Ukraine’s Armed forces on the one hand, and the Russian army and Russian-backed militants, who control part of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, on the other. Officially, Russia does not recognize its invasion of Ukraine, despite Ukraine presented the facts and evidence.
Negotiations on conflict settlement are being conducted in the framework of the trilateral contact group in Minsk (Ukraine – OSCE – Russia) and “Normandy format” (Ukraine – Germany – France – Russia).
Until recently, the Ukrainian delegation to Minsk headed by the second President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma. On 28 July, the Office of the President of Ukraine reported that Kuchma resigned and will no longer participate in the work of the TAG.
On 30 July the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky was appointed head of the delegation Kravchuk. The first President said that his main mission at this position considers the end of the war in the Donbass.
