Volker: Russia not achieved its goals in Ukraine

Russia failed to achieve its goals in the conflict in the Donbass. About it said US special representative on Ukraine Kurt Volker in an interview with Deutsche Welle.

He believes that Russia is expected to bring to power a more friendly government to keep Ukraine within its sphere of influence, but turned out the opposite effect.

“It all ended in tragedy, because so many people have suffered as a result of this conflict. More than ten thousand people died and over a million became displaced vynuzhdennye, but Russia’s objectives in Ukraine have not reached,” said Walker.

Specoal convinced that Russia wants to occupy the entire territory of Ukraine, and want to destabilize the situation, influence the policy of Kiev and to try to embroil Ukraine and the West.

Walker believes that the Minsk agreement is the instrument through which “Russia reiterates its commitment to restore the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine”.

In Ukraine consider the agreement a failure, because they did not lead to the end of the conflict, said the representative of the United States.

The question does not mean whether the actions of Russia that sanctions are not working, Walker said, “I wouldn’t say that. I would say that they didn’t work, but this is different. I think that in Russia a lot of people realize that the sanctions have a negative impact on their country. And will affect even more if restrictive measures will be extended. And it will be so”.

Walker believes that the conflict will not be solved as long as Russia will deny their participation in it.

See also: theme of the day. Why Walker came to Kiev

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