Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy visits a section of a restored bridge, which was damaged during the military conflict between Ukrainian government forces and Russian-backed separatists, in the frontline town of Stanytsya Luhanska, on November 20.
RFE: Ukraine’s Zelenskiy Names Four Key Issues For Upcoming Peace Summit on Donbas
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has said he will advance four key issues during an upcoming four-way meeting with the leaders of Germany, France, and Russia on a potential peace settlement in the Donbas conflict.
While visiting the opening of a reconstructed bridge in the frontline town of Stanytsya Luhanske on November 20, Zelenskiy said the most important discussion point was conducting local and regional elections in territories that Kyiv doesn't currently control.
Holding elections "is one of the difficult ones because it has many components," he said.
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WNU Editor: Ukraine President Zelenskiy's four conditions are basically this:
1) Local elections
2) Exchange of prisoners
3) Consequences to those who break the ceasefire
4) Control of the border
I do not think Moscow will disagree with these conditions. Neither will the Donbas leadership. They know that they will overwhelming win any election. Exchange of prisoners will benefit them. It is obvious that those who break a ceasefire should be punished. And control of the border can be returned once Ukraine President Zelenskiy fulfills his campaign promise and commitment to give autonomy to the region. The big problem that I see coming is what part of eastern Ukraine will be given autonomy. Russian-Ukrainians are the majority on the western side of the conflict zone, and they would want the same deal that their cousins will get in the Donbas region. My understanding from my family, friends, and contacts in Kiev is that autonomy will be given to these Russian-Ukrainian dominated regions. But my primary concern is that opposition to any peace deal is very strong among Ukrainian nationalists. And even though they were completely trounced in the Presidential and parliamentary elections this year, they have made no secret that they will do everything in their power to disrupt these moves to end the war.
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