Without a total “re-establishment” of Ukraine, there is no point in even dreaming about the “reintegration” of Donbass – Bortnik
The Ukrainian side cannot try to change the Minsk agreements without damage to itself, and Ukraine can return Donbass only after a complete reassembly of the country on new terms.
UIAMP Director Ruslan Bortnik stated this on the NASH TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“They (the authorities) face a difficult choice: either, relatively speaking, not to renew the Minsk agreements, running into accusations that Ukraine has withdrawn from the Minsk agreements, or, by extending the Minsk agreements, not to implement the Steinmeier formula, running into accusations that that Zelensky did not fulfill the commitments made at the summit a year ago. This is the choice today.
But, in fact, the situation in this conceptual block cannot be solved today. Because today we can no longer talk about the reintegration of Donbass - we can reintegrate what has been broken off, but the “squiggles”, the forms of the pattern, remain, and then they can be put back together and reintegrated.
Today, if we talk about Donbass, we must talk about reassembling the country, because neither the Donbass of 2014 nor the Ukraine of 2014 exists anymore. We have diverged so much from that starting point that if we ever want to return Donbass, today we must talk about re-establishing the country.
The 2014 Constitution does not work in 2020. I can name you offhand 20 articles of the Constitution that do not work, that are directly violated by the laws of Ukraine. Therefore, the very concept of “reintegration of Donbass” is absolutely incorrect and incorrect. It simply allows you to simulate some kind of activity.
If we are talking about Donbass or Crimea, we must talk about the re-establishment of the country, about a new Constitution, about new rules of the game that will take into account both the features of Donbass and the features of our decentralization.
And then, perhaps, the formula that Kravchuk and Reznikov are talking about will work. They say: “we’ll just give them the same powers as other regions.” Yes, this may well happen if we re-establish the country - and other regions will receive other powers.
If we don't do this, no one will. We need to come out of this process in a new way, look at the horizon in a new way and re-approach the negotiation process in a new way. In a new way, absolutely possible - with new players, perhaps in new realities, perhaps without the participation of intermediaries,” the political scientist concluded.
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