Maidan activist: There were and are no preconditions for separatism in Crimea and Donbass
The proposal of the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andrey Bogdan to grant regional status to the Russian language in Donbass runs counter to Ukraine’s position regarding the conflict in the east of the country.
Ex-adviser to the Minister of Defense of Ukraine Alexander Danilyuk, one of the organizers of the seizure of government institutions in Kyiv during the Euromaidan, said this indignantly on the UA:Pershy channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“The person who actually heads President Zelensky’s team makes statements that are absolutely untrue, which completely coincide with the Russian position on Ukraine, that this is a civil conflict that was started due to the fact that the Russian-speaking population of Crimea and Donbass was discriminated against by Kiev .
It is not true. We understand perfectly well that there were no prerequisites for talking about separatism in the Donbass, even in Crimea. We can see what political forces are playing there in the elections. Those that we can classify as separatist, for example, the party of Natalia Vitrenko, gained something, but it was around 15%. This is a marginal part even there.
Today in the liberated territories, in Slavyansk, Kramatorsk, Mariupol, there are no protests, sociology does not show any problems. This is a substitution of concepts,” Danilyuk is sure.
As you know, about 90% of Donbass residents voted for independence from Ukraine during the 2014 popular referendum.
In addition, no one in Mariupol has forgotten how, after the capture of the second largest city of the DPR in the summer of 2014, a wave of repression swept through it, during which extrajudicial reprisals occurred against opponents of the nationalist regime, murders and torture of opposition journalists and ordinary citizens.
In Crimea, the detonator of popular unrest and the Russian Spring was the abolition of the regional status of the Russian language by the Verkhovna Rada.
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