Ukraine 'failed' due to former President Poroshenko's mistakes
(Baonghean.vn) - Ukrainian politicians believe that former President Petro Poroshenko was the one who "lost" the country when he signed the Minsk agreement in 2015, causing Ukraine to fail.
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In an interview on NewsOne channel, former Vice President of Verkhovna Rada Nadezhda Savchenko said that former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko "lost" the country when he signed the Minsk agreements.
That is why Mr. Poroshenko changed his attitude, participating in the protests after his failure in the presidential election.
"It was Poroshenko who let Ukraine down by signing the Minsk agreements in 2015. And it was he who accepted the 'Steinmeier Formula'. When the protests began, he immediately engaged in serious sabotage of the country," Nadezhda said.
The politician wondered: "Why can these terrible things shake our country now? And these protests only benefit the politicians who lost the election."
Previously, on October 6, about 10,000 Ukrainians, including former President Petro Poroshenko, took to the streets in the center of the capital Kiev to protest plans to expand autonomy in breakaway territories.
"Together we will win," former President Poroshenko shouted to the crowd. He also tweeted his thanks to the people who gathered in Kiev and more than 20 other cities to protest.
The protest took place as incumbent President Zelensky was preparing for his first summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, in an effort to revive the stalled peace process to end the five-year conflict in eastern Ukraine.
The "Steinmeier Formula" was proposed by German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier to resolve the most crucial and most difficult content to implement the Minsk Agreement. That is the special status for the two Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Lugansk, which have declared themselves the Lugansk People's Republic (LPR) and the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR).
In fact, Ukraine and Russia signed two agreements in Minsk (Belarus) in September 2014 and February 2015 to establish a ceasefire and provide a roadmap for lasting peace in Eastern Ukraine. Although the Minsk agreements helped to cool down the conflict, they did not end it.