AYRAULT AND STEINMEIER URGE UKRAINE TO SURRENDER

The new "truce" in the Donbass has came into force since September 1, however, this one is not significantly different from the previous. Ukrainian positions are under constant shelling while the terrorists receive constant supplies of ammunition, provision and military staff from Russia. This new "truce" has once again proved the truthfulness of Bismarck's words, who claimed that any agreement with Russia is not worth a piece of paper, on which it has been signed.


And the reason of this is not just the lack of political will of the government or the fact that Ukraine is represented at the Minsk process by people, in whom the terrorists and their supervisors from Moscow can see their sympathizers and ideological supporters. But the main reason undoubtly is glut of the Ukrainian issue in diplomatic and informational space in combine with the apparent lack of reforms.

Hope for the West can be considered an effect of political fata morgana, which gradually dissolves on the horizon of Ukrainian politics. As Poland in 1939, Ukraine has found itself in the condition of a strange war, with only one difference - in the Polish case its allies declared war on Germany.

The theme of diplomatic solution to the conflict in the Donbass remains one of the top and the foreign ministers of France and Germany continue to talk about peace talks as well as to propose losing for Ukraine ways to resolve the crisis in the Donbas.

Earlier, the Morel plane was offered by the French side within the Minsk peace negotiations. Recall, the plan called for Ukraine to give the Donbass region away to the Russian occupiers. Ironically, seven year ago, during the Russian invasion to Georgia the French side was offering Tbilisi quite similar scenario of "the conflict resolution" - the Sarkozy plan. Worth noting that the model of the Russian-Georgian conflict resolution offered by Sarkozy differs from the Morel's plan on the Russian-Ukrainian conflict only by a title.

So happens that the French side always tends to provide a covert support to Putin in every military conflict, in which Russia participates. On Saturday's joint briefing Ayrault and Steinmeier offered a classic for Western mediators scenario  to normalize the situation in Donbas.

However, for some reason, it is resembling Putin's theses on providing of special status to the region, conduction of elections there, amnesty and full political rights to the terrorists - all this will lead to the emergence of another gray zone on the Europe map.

The Normand Four leaders believe that Ukraine has to play a role of controller of  inadequate followers of the "Russian World" by performing a role of the EU Border Guard Service. In addition, Jean-Marc Ayrault stressed that Ukraine have to ensure amnesty for the terrorists as well as to provide them possibility to hold "elections" throughout the Donbas and to give special status to the occupied territories. In addition, according to the French politican, Ukrainian side must to be first in the implementation of the above conditions first. As you probably already noticed, the French Foreign Minister's proposition is miraculously coincides with the demands have been put forward by the Kremlin.

In this case the Donbass would formerly a part of Ukraine, but in practice, the realisation of this "peace plan" will create another grey zone like Abkhazia, Ossetia or Transnistria on the Europe map, another center of drug and illicit arms trafficking.

Source AzovPress