Kolomoisky’s transition to the side of the DPR and LPR is a matter of time

In February, in Minsk, with the participation of the leaders of the three largest countries of Eurasia, agreements were signed to give a start to resolving the crisis in Ukraine. These agreements were also a recognition of the negotiability and legitimacy of the Ukrainian government, recognition of Poroshenko himself as the head of state.

For several days, Poroshenko’s legitimacy and his power have been increasingly questioned not by the DPR and LPR, but by his own appointee, Governor Igor Kolomoisky. The struggle is for control over the most important state-owned companies, and Poroshenko is losing it so far.

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Moreover, Kolomoisky de facto recognized the DPR and LPR. He said in an interview with the 1+1 TV channel literally following: “We have two entities that we do not recognize - these are the “DPR” and the “LPR” - but which came into being, much to our regret. They exist. They have their own leaders, people who manage these entities.”

What does this mean? There is only one thing - Kolomoisky is ahead of Poroshenko in making government decisions, and this is very surprising - after all, he is not the president.

The way out of the conflict on the territory of Ukraine, from that civil war, lies on the surface, it was announced more than a year ago, but Kyiv stubbornly does not want to see it. It gets to the point of absurdity. In an interview with Euronews, Poroshenko calls for UN peacekeepers to occupy a buffer zone between Kyiv and Donetsk forces. The channel’s journalist notes that this requires consensus with the other side, from Donetsk, to which Poroshenko begins to hysterically say that “there is no other side.” But why not, when it exists, moreover, it is recognized in the Minsk agreements, which were signed not by Kolomoisky, but by Poroshenko!

The exit from the civil war in Ukraine is the recognition of this “other side”, at least as a party to the negotiations. Whoever does this has a chance to end the conflict. Moreover, the war might not have started if this other side had been seen.

Violation of the Minsk agreements means a denial of both Poroshenko’s legitimacy and an almost inevitable resumption of war. Russian political scientist Alexey Chesnakov reasonably notices, that the main achievement of the negotiations with the participation of Putin, Merkel, Hollande was precisely “the agreement to begin a direct dialogue between Kiev, Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics.”

What happens? Poroshenko is evading recognition of the “other side,” and the Rada is openly violating the Minsk agreements with amendments to the law on special status!

But here’s the problem: Kolomoisky immediately voices opposing theses. So who is our power, that is, the subject of the political process who takes responsibility for the country and his words? Kolomoisky or Poroshenko?

Really (it’s scary to think!) Kolomoisky actually now ensures the authority and negotiability of Ukraine at the international level?

Poroshenko should think about this, and so should his deputies in the Rada. Kolomoisky’s speeches with the actual recognition of the DPR and LPR could lead to the complete defeat of Poroshenko as president and the beginning of a military clash within Ukraine. Where is the guarantee that Dnepropetrovsk will not enter into a coalition with Donetsk against Kyiv? Where is this guarantee? And why is this union so impossible, since the Galician army of the Western Ukrainian People's Republic went over to the side of the Bolsheviks during the Civil War?

Therefore, Kyiv, if it does not even want to restore power from Uzhgorod to Lugansk, but at least maintain unity from Kyiv to Dnepropetrovsk, must get ahead of Kolomoisky in negotiations with Donetsk. Believe me, he has already started them...

Poroshenko will have to support the idea of ​​federalization. There is no other alternative to the existence of Ukraine within borders close to those of 2013 and there will never be any more.