The outcome of Minsk: Russia pointed to a violation of the regime of silence

In the negotiations of tripartite group in Minsk, the Ukrainian side once again drew attention to the failure by Russia of the “Christmas truce”, which became effective on 23 December 2017. About this on their page Facebook I reported a press-the Secretary of the representative of Ukraine Darka olifer.

The Ukrainian side noted that from December 23 recorded only one day with no attacks from RF/ORDA.

“Although the overall number of attacks from Russia/ORDO decreased, extremely disturbing is the fact that all the shelling and targeting, and every other attack is using the Minsk agreements prohibited weapons (120mm and 82mm mortars, 122 mm artillery)” – written by olifer.

Representatives of Ukraine also drew attention to the unsatisfactory fulfilment of ORDO its obligations for mine clearance and repairs on critical civilian infrastructure. From 1 January 2018 the Ukrainian side of the JCCC has sent to the OSCE SMM 40 bids to conduct repair work, the militants gave the security guarantees only in one case, said olifer.

Also, attention was drawn to the system obstructing the work of observers of the OSCE SMM, which does not allow the mission to effectively carry out monitoring and verification of the security situation in the conflict zone. During the “Christmas truce” observers SMM 44 times in ORDA faced with unjustified restriction of access.

The Ukrainian side once again drew attention of the Russian Federation on the need to implement agreements of the leaders of the Normandy Quartet and the tripartite group on the opening of the KPVV “gold”.

In the subgroup of socio-economic issues raised the question of the return of the Ukrainian public and private property, which was captured in ORDA. “In particular, still IDLO representatives did not return Ukrzaliznytsia 30 000 units of rolling stock.

Especially hard, according to burden, the Ukrainian side raised the issue of blocking militants of emergency rehabilitation works to ensure people with mobile communication. “We demand to provide safe access for maintenance teams in the area of the settlement olenivka, which wouldn’t be appropriate technical devices that are in non-government controlled parts of the Donetsk region and restore the possibility of intercourse between the citizens of Ukraine”, – was written by olifer.

In addition, the meeting noted the dangerous environmental situation in ORDA. In particular, we are talking about flooding the mines that constitute a threat to large-scale technogenic disasters. In Minsk discussed the need to start the work of an international group of experts to study the possible environmental and other consequences of flooding of mines.

We will remind, on December 23 in the Donbass he started to act a ceasefire during new year and Christmas holidays, which was agreed on the eve of the trilateral contact group in Minsk (Belarus).

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