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The isolation prison. and now donetsk is the symbol of huge rights violation. and in november the two new crossing points that we opened have not been put into operation. and we see this and there is an obstruction under false pretext that ukraine is doing its best to push this discussion for political questions as well. and the tcg and minsk process, we have submitted the proposals and drafts of law, but everything is blocked and no one is talking about them. ukraine demands urgentry to unblock...

Held in a manipulative way because for them, the only way to go is to save themselves in russia. i think this is one of those areas where russia wants to show implausible to die debility —— plausible deniability, that they are not there, they keep denying to this day that they have nothing to do. if they recognise them as independent, this will also be the last nail in the coffin of the minsk process, which was a place to negotiate a settlement. going back to what we heard earlier today from...

International law. it is a violation of -- of -- of f flagrant violation of the sovereignty and integrity of the -- of ukraine. it is a repudiation of the minsk process and minx agreements and i think it is a very ill oman and a very dark sign. >> all right. lets bring in matthew schmidt now. he is associate professor of political science at university of new haven. good to see you again, professor. so what do you think is putins next move, now that he is putting these so-called peacekeeping tro...

But zelensky need a deal he gets out of the public and in a weird way putin has an easier time. he can try to dress up whatever deal he gets and deploy his propaganda a machine to say its a triumph and there is the access to independent media has been cut off in russia. so he has a much easier time. the ukrainians say weve gone through all this, my house destroyed, my family destroyed, cities levelled, we go through all this and you give him ukraine, sorry crimea, officially give him crimea and ...

So youve a situation where putin needs an offering, but zelensky needs a deal he can sell to the public and in a weird way putin has an easier time. he can try to dress up whatever deal he gets and deploy his propaganda a machine to say its a triumph and there is the access to independent media has been cut off in russia. so he has a much easier time. the ukrainians say weve gone through all this, my house destroyed, my family destroyed, cities levelled, we go through all this and you give him u...

So youve a situation where putin needs an off ramp, but zelensky need a deal he gets out of the public and in a weird way putin has an easier time. he can try to dress up whatever deal he gets and deploy his propaganda a machine to say its a triumph and there is the access to independent media has been cut off in russia. so he has a much easier time. the ukrainians say weve gone through all this, my house destroyed, my family destroyed, cities levelled, we go through all this and you give him uk...

Destroyed, cities levelled, we go through all this and you give him ukraine, sorry crimea, officially give him crimea and you give him that sort of quarter of the country in the east? they have not really done that with the deal that was negotiated in minsk, the minsk process effectively had done that anyway, in some fact at least. i think realistically most ukrainians would not be expecting crimea to be... theyve given up on it. interesting because what they have gone through it now, thats chan...

The Ukrainian escalations of the last week, together with Russia’s recognition of the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics and its movement of forces into their territories, advance the conflict to a new level.

     BRUSSELS, Dec 15, 2021 (BSS/AFP) - EU leaders will try to rescue their outreach to five former Soviet republics of

EU leaders will try to rescue their outreach to five former Soviet republics of eastern Europe on Wednesday, all of them would-be partners undermined by Russian meddling and regional strife.