Addressing European lawmakers in Brussels, Ukrainian Foreign Affairs Minister Vadym Prystaiko has said Kyiv seeks to end the conflict in eastern Ukraine, but not at any cost.
“Ukraine is now and will stay a unitary state. We are not talking about a forceful federalization of Ukraine,” Mr. Prystaiko said on October 14 in an address to the European Parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET).
“A second red line is that we are not changing our Constitution the way Russia wants it,” he added.
Mr. Prystaiko said Kyiv was ready to grant the areas held by Russia-backed separatists in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions “some sort of self-determination within the process of decentralization,” which he said “is ongoing in Ukraine anyway.”