NOVOAZOVSK - Alexander Zakharchenko, prime minister of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), is not refusing to discuss the division line between the conflict sides in Donbas.
“A decision on the division line will be made, but it will be done on our conditions,” he said during a meeting with Novoazovsk residents.
Zakharchenko earlier said the work on determining the division line had been suspended on Kyiv’s initiative.
Andrei Purgin, first deputy prime minister of the Donetsk People’s Republic, also said the Ukrainian authorities had failed to fulfill the obligation to separate the conflict parties. He said the division line had been approved, but “Kyiv revoked the signature of its representative, General Dumansky, in the appropriate document, without giving any reasons.”
Kyiv, for its part, has denied the rumors that Ukraine has signed some secret treaties in addition to the published Minsk agreements and on the subsequent revocation by Kyiv of its signature in the document. “You can’t decline something that was not,” Andriy Lysenko, spokesman for the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council, said.
Lysenko said the document proposed by the leaders of the DPR and LPR “envisioned the transfer of the territories of some populated areas and the Donetsk airport.”
“Clearly, it was unacceptable to Ukraine. For this reason, the document was not signed and full fulfillment of the Minsk agreements was urged, and they don’t mention the transfer of any territories,” Lysenko said.
