VON JULIAN RÖPCKE
BILD
has obtained a document containing the true plans by Russia for the occupied
territory of the Donbass.
The
records of the "Inter-ministerial Commission for the Provision of
Humanitarian Aid for the affected Areas in the Southeast of the Regions of
Donetsk and Luhansk" from 23rd October 2015 reveal what observers have
long feared: The Russian government is steering all affairs of the
"separatist areas" in the east of Ukraine.
Russian ministries
are responsible for Ukrainian politics
In this regard, the
concrete plans extend far beyond "humanitarian issues". In six
working groups, the subject areas of "Finance and tax law",
"Defining wage policies as well as residential and public service
matters", "Restoration of industry", "Trade with energy
sources", "Establishment of a market for electricity" and
"Transportation infrastructure" are being planned down to the last
detail. The regions are consequently being treated as parts of Russia's
sovereign territory.
Experts
to whom BILD showed the document saw practically no difference from commission
records concerning the Russian state itself. Deputy leaders of five ministries
of the Russian Federation head the relevant cross-departmental working groups;
the secret service "FSB" has supervision over each working group.
Even
four members of the Russian homeland (!) secret service "FSB" are
named. Only the Commission Chairman and the Liaison Officer to the Government
of Russia are above them in terms of hierarchy.
Numerous other
Russian authorities, such as the Federal Customs Office and the Anti-Monopoly
Service attend the regular sessions of the Commission in the Russian Duma.
Explosive: As the sole Ukrainian, a representative of the Ukrainian energy
giant "DTEK" owned by the oligarch Rinat Achmetov was present at the
meeting in October last year, according to the record.
In contrast, absolutely no member of the so-called separatist governments
of Luhansk and Donetsk was present at the session, the puppet politicians were
only informed about the results of the meeting. Common practice, as was
confirmed to BILD from expert circles.
Concrete tasks of the Russian ministries are for example the "an
assessment of the effectiveness of the collection of taxes and dues by the tax
authorities of the (Ukrainian) territories and the development of proposals for
the improvement of their function and strengthening of the budget
discipline".
Another working group deals as an example with the "development of
proposals for a further support of the restoration and maintenance of the
public transport system in the territories for 2016". This includes the
delivery of spare parts for "busses, trams and trains" as well as
"proposals for the optimization of the transport logistic".
In conclusion, the five involved Russian ministries address their
respective genuine tasks with the remarkable anomaly of controlling the fate of
Russian-ruled areas in eastern Ukraine.
The leading figures of the shadow government
The commission, which an
insider referred to as "shadow government of the Donbass" while
talking to BILD, is chaired by the Russian politician Sergey Nazarov. Nazarov
began his political career in the Rostov region, which neighbours Ukraine. He
was active there in various functions in the coal business before he was
summoned to Moscow.
The Deputy Minister for
Economic Development of the
Officially, Kozak and Nazarov work together within the
framework of the "Commission for the Socio-economic Development of the
Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol". This commission met, amongst other
dates, on the 15th October 2015, only a few days before the secret session of
the Donbass Commission.
The Deputy Commission
Head of the Donbass Commission is Leonid Gornin, also Deputy Minister of
Finance of the Russian Federation.
Gornin has continually championed the fiscal
consolidation of Russia in recent years, but spoke out, amongst other things,
against a financial reallocation in favour of the annexed Crimean Peninsula.
With him, it appears, as cost-effective as possible a governance of the
occupied Donbass is to be realised.
Ensuring the
authenticity of the Russian paper
To
not endanger the source of the secret paper, BILD will not publish the document
itself. However, BILD was allowed to see the original document and owns a
digital copy, which it provided to several experts for verification.
BILD checked the authenticity with the help of numerous sources and
informants. Ukrainian oligarchs, who had fled to Russia in 2014 with the
pro-Russian ruler Viktor Yanukovych, indicated they knew about the objectives
of the Duma Commission. They too were asked for money to implement the plans.
The foundation document of the "Inter-ministerial Commission for the Provision of Humanitarian Aid for the affected Areas in the Southeast of the Regions of Donetsk and Luhansk" from December 15, 2014
BILD also showed the document to high-ranking government representatives
of the Russian Federation, Russian journalists and secret services of several
countries. The unanimous assessment of all experts: The paper in the hands of
BILD is genuine.
The commission's work is already
bearing fruit.
The Donbass Commission, or de facto government of the Russian-occupied
areas in eastern Ukraine, was established in December 2014. Officially: on
account of "the urgent need and critical humanitarian situation" in
the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.Yet directly after its foundation, the
Commission disappeared from the scene, officially never meeting again.
The founding document from December 2014 contains the Russian name of the commission, dedicated to deal only with “humanitarian aid“. The commission „disappeared“ shortly after As BILD has found out, regular meetings of the Commission were actually
held at intervals of two to four weeks. But nothing was known about their
content - until now.
Just five months after the commission was founded, the entire occupied
areas began to be supplied with Russian roubles, as BILD reported exclusively
in January 2016. It is to be assumed that this measure came about as a direct
result of the commission's work. The plans now unveiled extend far beyond
maintaining financial support for the so-called Peoples' Republics.
Evidently, the
Russian government has assumed control over all areas of state responsibility
for the Ukrainian regions – and this without Ukrainian involvement, not even
the separatists! This not only determines the present destinies of the regions
with roughly three million inhabitants. The long-term planning for the
future of the territory is also pressing ahead.
Intelligence agency sources have confirmed to BILD that it actually
appears as though Moscow is completely controlling the Ukrainian region. The
still contested part of the Donbass appears "like a satellite state of
Russia", is how experts interpreted the situation.
The commission is
taking the Minsk Agreement to the absurd
Put
simply, this means that Moscow is only promoting the implementation of the
Minsk Agreement as a show for the West. Behind the curtains, a separate
plan for the controlled areas in the Donbass has been put into effect since the
end of 2014 (only three months after signing the peace plan Minsk).
Rather than envisaging a reintegration of the regions in the Ukraine
over the medium term, this plan aims to secure its long-term existence under
complete Russian control. The aims of the commission coincide with the events
observed locally, which BILD brought to light in January 2016, but extend far
beyond this.
Russia is planning a permanent stabilisation of the political, social and
economic situation in the Donbass under its control. That will make the Donbass
a puppet state of the Russian Federation, whose future is set to be decided
exclusively in Moscow. This is confirmation of the failure of the Minsk
Agreement, adherence to which by Russia is merely pretence.
Furthermore, the west's demand that Ukraine should enable democratic
elections in the areas not under its control is taken to the absurd by the
revelation. The political figures up for elections in such vote would not be
the ones in charge for the development of the area. Those that hold on to power
are located in Moscow.
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