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KYIV, 24 Jul — RIA Novosti. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and President of France Emmanuel Makron consider unacceptable such statements as the creation of the Ukraine, said Monday the press service of the Ukrainian President after a telephone conversation leaders “channel four”.
“The French President and the German Chancellor stressed the inadmissibility of any statements that undermine the territorial integrity of Ukraine, in particular regarding the establishment of the so-called “the Ukraine”, — stated in the message on the website of the Ukrainian President.
Earlier, the head of the self-proclaimed DND Alexander Zakharchenko has proposed the establishment of a transitional period of up to three years a new state of little Russia as the legal successor of the Ukraine — non-aligned status, a course on the restoration of relations with Russia and accession to the Union state of Russia and Belarus. The leadership of the Luhansk people’s Republic reported that the project with the LC was not discussed. Speaker of the Parliament DND Denis Putilin said that the establishment of the Ukraine — just an idea that is controversial, including in the DNR.
Press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov called the idea Zakharchenko personal initiative and reminded that Russia is committed to the Minsk agreements. The Plenipotentiary of Russia in the contact group on Donbass Boris Gryzlov noted that the initiative of the Ukraine does not fit into the Minsk process is not subject to real politics, as a response to provocative statements of Kiev.
The Russian presidential aide Vladislav Surkov called the main in the idea of “an imaginary state Ruthenia” the fact that the Donbass war is not for separation from Ukraine and for its integrity.