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Ukraine: 'Putin tried to delay ceasefire deal so rebels could capture Debaltseve'
According to Merkel, Hollande, and Poroshenko, the little prick Putin wanted to extend the bloodshed and carnage for 10 days! to ensure the capture of Debaltseve. The strategically important rail-hub of Debaltseve will lie in a buffer zone at 00.00 am Kyiv time on February 15.
Friday 13 February 2015
The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, sought to delay agreement on a Ukrainian ceasefire at talks in Minsk because he wanted pro-Russia separatists to capture the eastern railway hub of Debaltseve, an EU summit has been told. Three of the four leaders at the talks in Minsk – the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, France’s president, François Hollande, and Ukraine’s embattled president, Petro Poroshenko – dashed to the Brussels summit directly from Belarus. Briefing 26 other EU heads of government on the fraught negotiations that resulted in a truce supposed to start on Sunday, the Minsk participants painted a picture that failed to inspire confidence.
Witnesses to the discussion said all the EU leaders were skeptical about the success of the Minsk peace plan, not least because Putin had resisted pressure for a ceasefire. He hoped to delay the truce by 10 days, the summit heard, in order to force the surrender of up to 8,000 Ukrainian troops who are surrounded in Debaltseve by pro-Russia separatists. Putin was said to have made it clear that Debaltseve had to fall. In public remarks following the deal, Putin also said that the separatists had the Ukrainian forces encircled and that “of course, they expect [the Ukrainians] to lay down their arms and cease resistance”.
According to Merkel, Hollande, and Poroshenko, the little prick Putin wanted to extend the bloodshed and carnage for 10 days! to ensure the capture of Debaltseve. The strategically important rail-hub of Debaltseve will lie in a buffer zone at 00.00 am Kyiv time on February 15.