Co-director of Foreign Relations and International Security Programmes at the Razumkov Centre Oleksiy Melnyk said Mariupol residents had plenty of reason to be concerned about the pullout of the volunteer fighters from the obliterated village of Shyrokyne, located just 20 kilometers east of the strategic port city of Mariupol in Donetsk Oblast, the Kyiv Post newspaper reports.
“I would remind those who believe in this decision’s positive contribution to resolving the conflict that the terms of the previous Minsk agreement were never implemented,” Mr. Melnyk said.
“Russia doesn’t want to consider itself a party in the conflict,” he added, noting that Russia …read more
Source: Razumkov Centre