Interfax: No military solution to Ukraine conflict – Russian Defence Ministry

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(Interfax – St. Petersburg, June 30, 2015)

The Russian Defence Ministry sees no alternative to a peaceful settlement of the crisis in Donbass.

“We are convinced that the conflict in Ukraine has no military solution. There is no alternative to a peaceful settlement of the crisis on the basis of full compliance with the Minsk accords,” Russian Deputy Defence Minister Anatoliy Antonov told journalists in St Petersburg on Tuesday [30 June] at the end of a meeting of defence ministers of the SCO [Shanghai Cooperation Organization] member states.

He noted that the events in Maydan [Independence Square] in Kiev had “led to catastrophic consequences”.

“The socio-economic situation in Ukraine now is much worse than 18 months ago. There is a civil war on. The authorities try to pacify by force Donbass and Luhansk, which expressed no confidence in Kiev and disagreement with the policy it pursues,” Antonov said.

 

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