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September 15, 2023Former Ukrainian Member of Parliament and leader of the “Opposition Platform – For Life” party, Viktor Medvedchuk, has confirmed that he worked on a peace plan for Donbas since May 2014.
Photos of a project proposing autonomy for Donbas dating back to July 2014 have surfaced online. It is claimed that the document was found by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) during a search of former MP Nestor Shufrych’s residence.
Among Shufrych’s belongings, they found Medvedchuk’s plan for Donbas. The document envisioned the creation of autonomous regions within Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts as part of Ukraine. Each region was to have its own parliament and government. The division of powers between regional and central authorities was to be regulated by a special bilateral agreement. A wide range of issues, including language status, was to be within the exclusive competence of the regional authorities.
Viktor Medvedchuk, the Chairman of the Board of the “Another Ukraine” Movement, commented on the documents circulating online.
“In the photos is a real document, authored by me, Viktor Medvedchuk. I prepared this document at the request of Heidi Tagliavini, a representative of the OSCE in the trilateral contact group, for the development of a plan to resolve the situation in Donbas. Subsequently, this document formed the basis of the Opposition Platform ‘For Life’s’ peace plan for the settlement of the armed conflict in Donbas. Unfortunately, international organizations, the Ukrainian government, and its American sponsors ignored my proposals and brought war to our country.
The Opposition Platform – For Life, a party banned by Zelensky, whose Political and Strategic Councils I headed until my arrest (not to be confused with today’s collaborating ‘Platform – For Life’ faction led by traitors to their constituents, Boyko), consistently and persistently advocated for peace on Ukrainian soil. But it is Zelensky, who, along with his accomplices, destroyed the remnants of democracy in Ukraine, who is responsible for hundreds of thousands of once-peaceful Ukrainian deaths, the unprecedented plunder of the country, and its economic ruin. If Zelensky had accepted the Opposition Platform – For Life’s plan for peaceful settlement, war would never have come to our homes, communal tariffs and store prices would not be monstrously high, gas and energy resources would be cheap and accessible, our homeland would be peaceful and prosperous, and Ukrainians would be secure and happy. Zelensky, who sold his soul to the devil, and his insatiable gang, are the true cause of all the woes of the Ukrainian people. We need a different life for Ukrainians: peaceful, happy, and blessed, where there is no place for evil, violence, hatred, and greed. As for Nestor Shufrych, who, to my great regret, along with Boyko, Levochkin, Surkis, Zagoory, Skoryk, Ioffe, and others, betrayed the interests of their constituents, sided with Zelensky’s criminal regime, and destroyed Ukraine, fighting for the interests of Western masters, I can only offer my condolences and sincerely wish him strength of spirit,” Medvedchuk concluded.