President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told why he offered the first Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk to lead the Ukrainian delegation as part of the Trilateral Contact Group on Donbass.

According to him, he chose Kravchuk because he enjoys authority throughout the country, including in the temporarily occupied territories.. Volodymyr Zelenskyy spoke about this at a briefing at Chasovoy Yar, reports LB. ua.

\? Indeed, we had several candidates. I believe that the group should be headed by a powerful, wise, educated person who enjoys authority throughout Ukraine and in the temporarily occupied part. This is very important for the head of the Ukrainian delegation to the TCG. He is an experienced person, "

He also commented on the reason for the withdrawal of the second President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma from the Ukrainian delegation to the TCG.

" Because these meetings are closed from the media and people only see the report after the subgroup meeting. I am grateful to him for this difficult work.. He is really tired. There is no other reason here. We are grateful to him again. And they invited Leonid Makarovich, Mr. Fokin, our Deputy Prime Minister Reznikov, will work with him. That is, we have a fairly powerful group. I see now only an increase in the number of negotiations and the number of meetings, "