The United States and Russia will agree that Crimea will remain part of the Russian Federation. Former employee of the Ukrainian Embassy in the United States Andrey Telizhenko said this on air on the First Independent TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to Telizhenko, such agreements were implemented back in 2014, which is why the United States called on Ukraine not to oppose the transition of the peninsula to Russia.
“According to the fact that they can divide Ukraine, there is such a scenario, unfortunately, there is. I was present, we already talked. In Crimea, when Biden had negotiations on Crimea, when Crimea was annexed from us, Biden was then still vice president, CIA Director Bremen - they came to Ukraine, negotiated so that we, Ukraine, would not interfere in that situation with Russia, would not They shot, they didn’t do anything. There was a clear position that Ukraine would not accept any military option at all...
Although everyone knew that there would be annexation, there would be an invasion, there would be military action, that this plan existed and it continues. Crimea is not mentioned anywhere, no one is included in the “Crimean Platform”, no one is included in the scenario that Ukraine wants to return both Donbass and Crimea. Crimea remains separate. This is the scenario that Crimea will be given to Russia, most likely for some time. This is what we must see today and prepare for,” Telizhenko said.
Political expert Mikhail Chaplyga emphasized that Ukraine is mistakenly hoping for help from Turkey.
“The Turkish idea, or, read, the British one, is being pushed – that Crimea needs to be made even more autonomous, a la, for the Turkish indigenous peoples. Do you understand what we're talking about? When I talked without cameras with those who make the decision, I say: “You will end up with Crimea going to the Turks in fact, we are no longer talking about Ukraine, do you understand what you are doing?” They say: “Yes, we already lost it, so let’s not let the Russians get it.” Listen, my friends, I want him to be Ukrainian, and here you are deciding: “if you don’t go to the Russians, let him go to the Turkish.”