Leonid Kravchuk, Ukraine’s former President and leader of the Ukrainian delegation at the Tripartite Contact Group has presented a roadmap envisaging elections in occupied Donbas by March 31, 2021. While any chance of such elections being free and fair are effectively nil, the anger expressed in parliament, and any accusations of ‘capitulation’ or ‘treason’ are probably premature, since the prerequisites in the roadmap are also impossible. The initial plan put forward by Russia, via its proxy ‘Donetsk and Luhansk people’s republics’ (hereafter ORDLO), is equally unrealistic, albeit for different reasons.
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Halya Coynash: Russia foists negotiations with Donbas proxies
Pro-Russian separatists soldiers withdraw their tanks from position near town of Novoazovsk in Donetsk region on Oct. 21, 2015.
