Martynov: the message about stopping the fire must improve the image Poroshenko

The press service of the President of Ukraine about the " consensus about the constant stop fire in Donbass " and then " edit " may indicate low professionalism of the employees of the press service of Petro Poroshenko or deliberate attempt to present it in a favorable light, " said Director of the Institute for advanced countries Alexey Martynov.

on Wednesday, the press service of the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko after his telephone conversation With the head of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin stated that the result of the conversation was " an agreement on a permanent stop fire in Donbass ".

A spokesman for the Russian leader Dmitry Peskov denied the Statement, saying the Last news that the Russian Federation could not agree on stopping the fire in Ukraine, As it is not a party to the conflict. Later, the press service of Poroshenko said his message, noting that the result of the negotiations was not " an agreement on the permanent stopping of fire ", and " agreement on ceasefire in Donbas ".


Martynov suggested that in this case it could be either an error of the press service personnel Poroshenko, or about trying to wishful thinking, or was fraudulent misrepresentation.

" At least it's low professionalism of the press service of the Ukrainian President and the attempt to wishful thinking, " said Martynov.

the expert believes that, taking into account the previous erroneous and sometimes false statements by officials and their authorized in Ukraine, " you can assume it's intentional misrepresentation in order in a more favorable light to expose his boss ", Recalling that on Thursday will begin the NATO summit in Wales. According to the statements of Western politicians at the beginning of the summit, its key theme will be the situation around Ukraine.

This Martynov does not believe that this incident will affect contacts between the Russian and Ukrainian leaders.

" of course, like bloopers and distortion do not improve the relationship between the relevant ministries and government leaders. The last time we seen so much from the Ukrainian authorities that we have a sustainable vaccination and proper attitude to everything that they say. For this reason, worse than it is, not will be, " said he.


Martynov also noticed that the message about the full stop fire from the press service of Poroshenko can be expected only after negotiations With the militia, and not With the Russian leaders.

" The ceasefire Ukrainian leader, Kyiv have the opportunity to discuss only with the second party of the conflict, the new Russia. With the Russian President he can only discuss the peacekeeping role on the fact on their own shoulders took Russia: the humanitarian assistance, the adoption of immigrants on the territory of the Russian Federation, the negotiation process in Minsk With the help of, With the guarantee of Russia as an observer and peacemaker ", - noted he.

This specialist optimistic about the prospects for the development of ad full cease-fire.

" in Minke work of the contact group, for this reason looking forward To in the coming days cease-fire to have started already full-blown conversations about the world, " he finished Martynov.


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