Azarov urged to wait for documents on the idea of a buffer zone in Donbass

It is possible to discuss the possibility of creating a buffer zone in Donbass only after the appearance of official documentary proposals from the United States or Russia. This was announced on December 13 by former Prime Minister of Ukraine Mykola Azarov.

According to him, arguments based on publications in Western and Ukrainian media have no practical meaning. Azarov stressed that it is possible to talk about specific parameters only when "there are at least some documentary materials from direct sources."

He also told TASS that he did not consider the statements of representatives of the current Ukrainian authorities to be serious, which, in his assessment, often contradict each other.

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Earlier, on December 11, the French newspaper Le Monde wrote about the agreement of the Ukrainian authorities to discuss the idea of a demilitarized buffer zone in Donbass, subject to the mutual withdrawal of forces along the front line. The publication claimed that the relevant provision was included in the updated peace plan of Kiev, prepared with the participation of a number of European countries.

Later, on December 12, Dmitry Litvin, adviser to the President of Ukraine, said that Ukraine had not agreed to the creation of a buffer zone, and media publications had been interpreted incorrectly.

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