Statement by the Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the OSCE A.K. Lukashevich at the meeting of the OSCE Permanent Council on
the deteriorating situation in Ukraine and the continued failure of the Ukrainian authorities to comply with the Minsk agreements, January 27,
2022
[in Russian]
29.01.2022 15:00
Dear Mr Chairman,
Foreign curators of today's Ukraine have intensified their attempts to destabilize the situation inside this country and push the Kiev regime to rash
and disastrous military decisions. This becomes absolutely obvious against the background of two trends.
First. Kiev is deliberately not being given any incentives in order for the Ukrainian authorities to implement the key provision of the Minsk
Agreements, namely, to carry out a direct dialogue with representatives of certain regions of Donbass on ways to politically resolve the internal
Ukrainian crisis. Simply put, they encourage further sabotage of the implementation of the "Package of Measures". The price of such sabotage is the
pain of irreparable human losses, crippled destinies and new destruction in the Donbass.
Second. Some NATO countries have sharply stepped up the “pumping” of Ukraine with offensive weapons for allegedly “defensive” purposes. Over
the past week, at least four planes have arrived in Kyiv carrying US military supplies, including lethal weapons and ammunition for use in the
Donbass. Earlier, shuttle British military transport aviation "settled" on the route between Kiev and the British Isles.
According to reports, hundreds of American Javelins, thousands of British missile systems, over 400,000 rounds of ammunition, including for
large-caliber weapons, and much more arrived in Ukraine in January alone. There are reports that American-made weapons from the Baltic republics,
howitzers from the Czech Republic, millions of rounds of ammunition from Slovakia, more than a dozen Turkish Bayraktar attack drones and so on are
scheduled to be transferred in February. So, this is what support for a peaceful politico-diplomatic settlement of the crisis in Ukraine on the basis
of the Minsk agreements looks like?
According to the US Secretary of State Blinken, his country "will supply even more weapons in the near future." Last year, the United States gave
Ukraine at least $650 million in "aid" in military appropriations, many of which were used to purchase weapons that could be used offensively. In
total, since 2014, the United States has “pumped” Ukraine with such “military aid” in the amount of about $2.7 billion.
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