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Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov is likely to soon be dismissed following a procurement scandal in the ministry, Ukrainska Pravda reported on Aug. 31, citing government sources.

According to the diplomat, the Minsk agreements, Minsk-2, Security Council resolution 2202 were a missed opportunity to resolve the situation in Ukraine, being actually ignored, including by certain countries - the so-called guarantors of these documents.

“The collective West has never tried to persuade Ukraine to comply with the Minsk agreements. The Western states - the guarantors of the agreements - have not fulfilled their obligations. If they had done it, we would not be discussing this problem here today,” Valentin Rybakov stressed.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine risks incapacitating one of the only remaining multilateral spaces for cooperation between Russia and the West, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). Participating states must work to prevent this outcome and preserve the OSCE’s critical role in containing conflicts.

Spread the lovemore COMMENT: Dear Martin, In addition to the 4 demands listed in your blog “Putin offers peace…” there is a fifth; Ukraine must repeal its “Ukrainian only” law and accept Russian as an equal official language. About 50% of all of Ukraine’s population has Russian as their mother tongue. Most of them are […]