Any step of power in the direction of the implementation of the Minsk agreements threatens civil confrontation within Ukraine

On October 1, at the meeting of the tripartite contact group, an agreement was reached on the breeding of troops in two sections of the demarcation line in the Donbass. On the same day, President Vladimir Zelensky gathered an emergency briefing: “... I congratulate everyone. We really believe in the beginning of the dilution of troops in Petrovsky and gold. Incidentally, I want to calm the local population. I personally guarantee that you will be protected, and the removal of the military will not affect your safety ... ”Criticism of the public statements of Zelensky made by the impromptu became familiar. The style of the president, who promised to return the world to the country, but not lose the war, is watching without saying anything. The dialect of "by the way" in the context sounded really inappropriate.

Fears and anxiety

Since 2016, since the first time they started talking about the implementation of the Minsk agreements regarding the dilution of the troops, the residents of the Lugansk village of Zolotoy-4, which in the immediate vicinity of the CPVV (control point of entry-exit) has been afraid not only shelling. People are sure: when the Ukrainian troops leave the settlement, and it will turn into a “gray” zone, pro -Russian militants from the “that” parties will begin to freely come in and arrange lynching. Avenge the residents for being next to the military, supported them.

And in a gold-4 war-ruined war-4 there were mainly about half a thousand old people. (About 4 thousand people live in the Golden town, many families with children.)

To hear today, “Svy, Don’t leave!”, Which break into the air, and respond to the inevitable costs of a large political process - a test ...

Conflicting information comes from the village of Lugansk, where the weapons were divorced at the end of June, and this fact was recorded by the special monitoring mission of the OSCE.

At the end of August, the territory around the territory blown up in 2015 through the Seversky Donets, connecting the two “shores” of war in 2015, was completed there.

At one end, at the checkpoint, a blue-yellow flag is fluttering, and news releases in Ukrainian sound through the loudspeaker. On the other - the flag of "DPR" and "... says Moscow."

And to a strip of obstacles, that is, exclusively by a pedestrian crossing, to the horsemen that replace the stairs, queues are built daily. With carts-“kravchiks”, with babies in their arms, leaning heavily on sticks. They overcome the passport, fiscal control in the barrier-whether there is something forbidden in things. The road of life for others turns into a last journey. “Thank you for bother with us, fools ...” - says a middle -aged woman to the Ukrainian military and slowly, habitually pulls her bag with belongings towards the conditional border of an unrecognized republic.

According to the State Border Service of Ukraine, daily, at any time of the year, the KPVV “Village of Lugansk”, the only checkpoint in the region, crosses about ten thousand citizens there. Five kilometers on foot ... I quote the report of Anastasia Magazova and Andrei Dubchak from the website of the Ukrainian edition of Radio Liberty, and the report of Nastya Stanko from Gromadsky.

Colleagues who have worked as front -line correspondents in the previous five years do not understand how to resent that the situation that humiliates human dignity will finally disappear. As you know, Zelensky instructed to make a normal bridge in the village of Lugansk by November 27. But some of the fellow citizens took the initiative in hostility:

“Devices or even tanks, not grandmas with wallets!”

In such positions, for example, there is a famous volunteer Roman Donik, who claims that in the village, in fact, a suburbs of Lugansk, real dilution of forces did not take place. “Everything is reporting to Zelensky, he knows, but he lies,” Donik writes on his blog.

The August text of the journalist of the Internet publication "NV" ("New Time") Irina Lopatina partially confirms the fears of the volunteer. The head of the local administration, Yuri Zolkin, does not agree that 10 thousand civilians are abandoned to the mercy of fate, since the Ukrainian military is allotted 300-400 meters from the village, deep into the territory. “The question of our safety is different,” he says. The village of Lugansk, located in the Russian Border region, at the beginning of the war, according to Zolkin, was fired by heavy artillery from Russia. “We are in the affected area of ​​the receiver. And we do not have reliable information that the opposite party fulfills the agreement. ”

“The OSCE is the controller. But ordinary people are already used to the fact that the OSCE escapes the first if the shelling begins ... "

“To date, it is clearly visible that on the opposite side of the destroyed part of the bridge that the militants control, there are armed people. And they did not begin to dismantle their defense structure, ”the head of the administration explains his anxiety to the reporter.

Although, even taking into account what was said, shaky, like a temporary bridge, the world here is perceived with hope for more.

The zone of the conditional world

In Minsk, it was planned to start the breeding of troops in Petrovsky and gold on October 7. But the event should have been preceded by mutual ceasefire. In parallel, they were waiting for what the Minister of Foreign Affairs Vadim Zabeko announced - a new large -scale exchange of prisoners with the Russian Federation. Ukrainian analysts have repeatedly suggested that Putin gave Zelensky the opportunity to pick up Sentsov, Kolchenko, Ukrainian sailors and other children in exchange for Steinmeier's Formula, which poisoned society and especially the Maidan part of it. Who in the Kremlin was promised to free the discharge of Ukrainian troops - Crimean Tatar activists, political prisoners, whose stories, at times less media, amaze drama?

On October 5, Zelensky had a meeting with the leadership of the General Staff, SBU, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Foreign Ministry. We discussed the issue of the safety of the population living in the dilution of forces. As follows from the press release, the authorities agreed to visit Petrovskoye, Golden and the village of Lugansk in the near future to personally make sure: there is already more or less. Who specifically was going to go to the zone of the conditional world, was not reported.

I looked at the SOOS reports for the current week. Messages came identical:

• October 4. “... Russian-Commissioning troops 32 times violated the regime of the cessation of silence in the Donbass. One Ukrainian warrior died, two more were injured. The enemy fired at the position of the operation of the United Forces from 82 mm mortars prohibited by the Minsk agreements, as well as from BMP weapons, grenade launchers of various systems and small arms. In addition, in violation of the Minsk agreements, the enemy opened fire from an automatic grenade launcher for the forces and funds in the area of ​​the village of Bogdanovka ... In the area of ​​responsibility of the North operational-tactical group, the following settlements were subjected to shelling: Novoluganskoye, Lugansk, Mironovskoye, Krymskoye, Novotoshkovskoye, Golden. ”

• On October 6, the OOS press center presented the next summary of the past day: 25 shelling of Ukrainian positions from 82 mm mortars prohibited by the Minsk agreements, BMP weapons, grenade launchers of various systems, sniper and small arms. The shelling was conducted near Novotroitsky, Krasnogorovka, Pavlopol, Avdeevka, Bogdanovka, Novoinatovka, Water, Birch, Food, Novolugansky, Novomikhailovka, Popasnaya, Lugansk, Zaitsev. Especially harshly beaten from the machine gun machine gun and rifle weapons in gold-4 and gold. One Ukrainian military died, another was injured.

• At dawn on Monday, October 7 , the terrorists opened fire again. At about o’clock in the afternoon, the Minister of Besko said at a briefing:

- Our negotiation teams in Minsk agreed that the breeding of troops begins on the seventh day after shelling does not occur in a specific site. Unfortunately, you yourself know that the gold and Petrovskoye were fired. We need to wait until the next seven days have passed.

Prosiko clarified: the process provides for the care of manpower of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, fortifications remain. And if the Ukrainian side finds that the militants are planning aggressive actions, then the military will return.

“Ukraine does not recommend playing with the breeding of troops to take some positions or seize any city,” the minister warned. The followed reaction of the Kremlin was not original, this sounded more than once in acute situations. Russia, they say, has a certain influence on the “republics”, but the “intra -Ukrainian conflict” is not a side of the “intra -Ukrainian conflict”, and the withdrawal of troops is not responsible for the ceasefire and the withdrawal. So TASS said the response of the press secretary of Putin Dmitry Peskov.

By default, it should be assumed that prisoners from Russia, too, this week you can not wait ...

Eternal call

Last Sunday, a wave of mass rallies under the slogan “There is no surrender!” Rolled around Ukraine.

Kyiv gathered at the veche, according to the police, 10 thousand people. In the regional and district centers, activity was not so high, but sufficient for the authorities to take note: the “red lines” would not be able to go. Retrieved by two Maidans.

There are many lines. The main ones look like this:

• refuse to coordinate the "Formula Steinmeier",

• prevent decision -making that could lead to the surrender of Ukrainian interests,

• To form and introduce state policy regarding Russia in the occupied territories on the basis of the current Law of Ukraine on the features of local self -government in certain areas of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions - "Donbass and Crimea must return without any conditions of the Kremlin!"

• Well, to immediately resign the head of the office Andrei Bogdan for his public statements about the paid nature of the current protest, called the “gathering”.

To declare that the action is inspired by the opponents of Zelensky, therefore it is not worthy of attention and respect is stupid. Veterans, volunteers, civilian activists, people of different ages and social status do not change the democratic tradition that lasts many years when they feel the danger to the country's course. Although politicians who lost the elections did not stand aside. Petro Poroshenko in jeans and a bobochka with a zipper, with his wife Marina, surrounded by supporters, also went to a banking, to the presidential residence, with columns chanting “Im-Piche-Maln!” And "Grit - Get!".

The police did not record serious violations of public order. Although autumn, the time of Ukrainian revolutions, has not yet ended.

"This is our last checkpoint!"

While the capital was rallyed, the leader of the National Corps (the organization banned in Russia- ed. ), Ex-deputy of the Rada, ex-candidate for the presidency of Ukraine, Andrei Biletsky, along with the group of twin-veterans of the ATO, natives of Donbass, came to the line of distinction, a kilometer from the gold. Local, old and young gathered.

- Today the country wakes up. And he begins to fight the shameful “Minsk”, shameful “Steinmeier's formula” and simply a criminal allotment of troops. Everything will depend not on the authorities or politicians, but on each of us, ”Biletsky turned to the listeners. - But the biggest support is deserved by those whom this authorities want to leave without cover tomorrow, to sacrifice the so -called “LDNR” - the inhabitants of the Golden, Petrovsky, the village of Lugansk. Veterans who took up weapons in 2014 will remain here, even if troops are withdrawn. If the president does not fulfill his direct duty - to protect each Ukrainian, then we will fulfill once again, volunteers. This is our last checkpoint, and we give the word that we will never leave it. I believe that there will be no challenge, but there will be only a large Ukrainian victory, ”concluded the leader of the National Corps.

Approximately at the same time, a collective appeal to Zelensky residents of the Golden-4 appeared on the Web: “APU is a guarantee of the safety of our life”. And in the town of Golden, they generally recorded a video from the pro -Ukrainian protest action:

“We must reach the border, and not back in our land. We will lie down under our tanks, they will not crush our own. In 2014, they did not crush those, and all the more they won’t become us! ”

However, another point of view also exists. The 1+1 channel showed how a group of senior officers from Kyiv rushed to the golden to reassure the population. They were met in an organized manner, with a cry: “Both the others - let's go already! Stop shooting! "

The speaker of the Rada Dmitry Razumkov tried to reduce the degree with a promise not to cross a single “red line”. In an interview with Ukraine, he repeated:

- Let no one even have the thought that the new law on a special status will lead to federalization of Ukraine. Elections can be held only under Ukrainian law. And they are possible when there are no machine guns, tanks, other weapons. When we have control over the border, when the OSCE recognizes the elections honest and democratic, only then the new law on the special status of Donbass will enter into force, which is to be developed with the involvement of experts, the public and foreign partners.

Bogdan Yaremenko, the head of the relevant committee on international relations, the deputy of the “servants of the people”, chose a shocking method. “There is no need to talk about surrender - it has already happened! - The essence of the video blog recorded by him following the example of the President of Zelensky. -All that now began to bother people-“Steinmeier's Formula” and so on-is September 2014 and October 2015, when the Minsk agreements were signed. More than it was, no one will allow. ”

But sedative speeches do not help society.

Individual experts, such as the coordinator of the “Information Resistance” group Alexander Kopytko, give advice to President Zelensky to use protest shares in the country as a rescue circle and a gift of fate before negotiations in the “Norman format”. “Having a thousands of thousands behind the back, he can say:“ From childhood I am for Steinmeier, but I don’t even have time to run to the border if I try to embody, ”Kopytko recommends quite in the“ Quarter 95 ”style. “Zelensky, in theory, should be interested in the protesters to play on his side. He himself must collect these Maidans. "

On October 14, the ancient Cossack holiday of the Intercession, even larger performances are planned throughout Ukraine.