Prolonged and complicated negotiations are still better than death of people in the armed conflict in Ukraine. However, the efficiency of meetings of the contact group in Minsk is very questionable.

No matter whether it was spontaneous or deliberate, the statement made by Maira Moira in support of Alexander Lukashenko voiced on the TV will be used by the Belarusan propaganda to the full.

For many years the EU has been successfully ignoring Russian anti-European policy in our region, and the Eastern EU’s Partnership project never became a geopolitical initiative.

The situation and the conditions in which people carry on their protests against the Putin’s regime is much more demonstrative than the change in the number of participants of “Peace March”.

Referendum in Scotland was of use not only to the Scottish, but also to the supporters of united Europe.

The wall being erected at the Russia-Ukraine border won’t stop full-scale Russian aggression; this is a step made against Russia’s “hybrid” war.

Having achieved a truce during the NATO Summit, the official Kyiv provided itself with the more decisive support of the North Atlantic Alliance.

Ukraine is unable to confront Russia’s large-scale aggression. Ukraine doesn’t need meaningless exhortations about peace; it needs guarantees of safety and direct technical and military assistance.

It is no use expecting the change of course in Brussels-Minsk relations in connection with the rearrangement in the EU higher authorities.

Any attempts to establish peace in Ukraine without Russia’s real refusal to support gunmen will be fictitious.