Following the secret prisoner exchange between the US and Russia, Kiev fears that both countries may be secretly negotiating peace in Ukraine.
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Ukrainian officials insisted on Friday, August 2, that they will demand that US President Joe Biden honor his oft-repeated promise of “nothing about Ukraine and without Ukraine,” The Washington Post reported.
As the adviser to the head of the Presidential Office, Mykhailo Podolyak, told journalists, Ukraine is now “too independent” to be ignored during any potential negotiations.
WP writes that Bankova has good reason to be concerned that Ukraine could be forced to compromise. The article says that 10 years ago, after Russia invaded Donbas, French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel pushed then-Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to sign the Minsk agreements on extremely unfavorable terms for themselves.
At that time, Russia was seen as a guarantor of the agreement, rather than a party to the conflict, because it was believed that a supposed “civil war” was continuing in eastern Ukraine.
Let us recall that on August 1, a large-scale prisoner exchange took place between Western countries and Russia. The media stated that this was the largest exchange between the West and Russia since World War II. US President Joe Biden called it a diplomatic feat.
Source: The Washington Post
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