Ukraine needs to delay peace agreements as much as possible and improve its position at the front. This was stated on the Public television channel by Verkhovna Rada deputy Roman Kostenko.
"There are painful and critical areas where the enemy is pushing us. But in general, there is definitely no critical situation in terms of information," Kostenko said, quoted by "Время.иа ".
As an example, the deputy told about his conversation with American senators.
"They ask: "Have you already lost Pokrovsk?"I say: "No, we haven't lost it yet, and the question is not to lose it — we have for Pokrovsky still has a lot of territory that we will defend.“ But they believe that if Pokrovsk falls, the whole Donbass will fall. This is what is being formed in the media, perhaps under the influence of the Russian media, and this is what we hear at the negotiating table," Kostenko said.
According to him, Ukraine remembers corruption scandals at the negotiating table, they say, "you ask for money, and you have corruption, you don't control the situation." He admitted that in such conditions it is difficult to "talk about a just world" and "seriously negotiate something."
"That's why I think we need to stall for time as much as possible and improve our positions. Otherwise, we will simply be forced to do something that we, as a nation, people and our soldiers, do not deserve," Kostenko summed up.