Some politicians in West want war in eastern Ukraine: Pundit

Press TV has conducted an interview with James Jatras, a former US Senate foreign policy analyst in Washington, to discuss the situation of the people living in the volatile eastern parts of Ukraine.

Press TV: Speaking about the humanitarian situation in Ukraine, how is this crisis going to be dealt with both financially and geographically? Where are the displaced people going to be settled?

Jatras: At this point, it seems that there is very little prospect that most of them will go home.

I think the fundamental problem is that we really don’t have a political solution in eastern Ukraine. The second Minsk agreement, which has been in effect since February, is really still just a ceasefire; it’s a truce; it’s not a political settlement. And until Kiev shows willingness to talk to the authorities in the eastern regions of Lugansk and Donetsk and stops calling them terrorists, I don’t see how the political provisions of Minsk are going to be implemented; and without those, I don’t see what prospect [there is] for these people to go home.

Press TV: Speaking about the Minsk agreement, I mean how critical would the situation become if the Minsk ceasefire is violated? With that I mean the end of diplomacy and political efforts to settle the whole Ukrainian crisis.

Jatras: I think it would. I think the Lugansk and Donetsk leaders have made clear that there will be no Minsk 3 if this agreement breaks down. And unfortunately, there are some hot heads not only in Kiev but in Washington and perhaps in some European capitals, who do want to see this war restart. And I just don’t think that that makes any sense, certainly not for the people who have been victimized by this tragedy.

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