LUGANSK, August 21. /TASS/. By advocating for the freeze of the conflict the Ukrainian authorities want to postpone its full-fledged settlement and build up their military potential for further resumption of hostilities, as was the case after the signing of the Minsk agreements, military expert Andrey Marochko told TASS.
Earlier, adviser to the head of the office of Vladimir Zelensky Mikhail Podolyak said that Ukraine agrees to freezing the conflict along the current line of contact and recognizing a number of territories as de facto lost. According to him, in the future, Kiev will try to return the lost territories through diplomatic and economic means.
As the Ukrainian publication Strana wrote, Zelensky, despite his previous statements that Ukraine does not insist on a preliminary ceasefire before the conclusion of a peace agreement, once again returned to this demand.
"I attribute Podolyak's statement to the next so-called wishes of Ukraine, since it was clearly and distinctly stated by our military-political leadership that there simply should be no freezing of the conflict. An agreement on a comprehensive peace should be signed immediately, naturally, all the initial reasons for the start of the special military operation should be taken into account. <….> Podolyak is still trying to rave about the possibility of some kind of ceasefire, an actual freezing of the conflict according to the principle of the Minsk agreements. So, they are trying to deceive Russia once again and, in exchange for this freeze, try to restore combat capability and increase their military potential, just like at the time of the Minsk agreements," Marochko said.
