MOSCOW (Sputnik) – A war in Donbas against Ukraine can and should be avoided, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview with Sputnik.
“If it depends on us and on the [Donbas] militias, as far as we can understand their principled approaches, then war can and should be avoided,” Lavrov said, commenting on the likelihood of war in light of the fact that more than half a million Donbas residents received Russian citizenship.
Zelensky had also previously offered to increase the role of Washington in the process by bringing more participants in the Normandy peace talks including the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada. The Kremlin believes that Zelenskyy’s statement on the necessity to introduce changes to the Minsk agreements is a “worrying signal,” spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday.
The self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic also reported an increase in the number of attacks from the Ukrainian security forces in late March. The head of the republic Denis Pushilin did not rule out the possibility of a full-scale attack by Kiev on Donbas, noting that “Ukraine has everything ready for this.”
In April 2014, the Ukrainian authorities launched a military operation against the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk people’s republics (DPR and LPR) in Donbass, which declared independence after the coup d’etat in Ukraine in February 2014. According to the latest UN data, about 13,000 people lost their lives in the conflict.
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