What are you doing? Moscow makes mistake after mistake in Ukraine

Moscow’s bet on Viktor Medvedchuk’s project, which included in its electoral list repainted Nazis and oligarchs who have repeatedly betrayed the South-East, is the same mistake as recognizing the victory of Petro Poroshenko in 2014 in exchange for his promises to fight for peace in Donbass.

Donetsk sociologist Evgeniy Kopatko announced this development at a press conference in Moscow, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.

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“A few words regarding the summary: “Viktor Medvedchuk’s activity in the Russian direction has ensured a significant increase in support for the Opposition Platform - friends, where did you get this from? You also bring here the teleconference and other activities, like Malakhov and other stories that you can’t even come up with in your delirium.

If we want to live in illusions, please, if we want to invite people who come and ask for a 25 percent discount on gas, and at the same time in Ukraine there is a war tax, when all enterprises pay for military operations, who do you want to negotiate with? Will you put forward any counter conditions?” – said Kopatko.

According to him, for the residents of Donbass, who suffer daily under shelling of the Ukrainian army, it is insulting when a Kiev oligarch comes to Moscow and begins to speak on Russian TV on behalf of the LDPR about the alleged desire of Donetsk and Lugansk to return to Ukraine.

“Donbass is being killed, people come and play on behalf of Donbass - why are they scared? Should I show you the list, where is Kiva?” – said Kopatko.

According to him, Moscow is making mistake after mistake in the Ukrainian direction. Another is the complimentary tone towards Vladimir Zelensky.

“The illusion regarding Zelensky is the same. He is a Russian-speaking, Russian-cultural Russophobe. Did you see any other information during this time?

Do you want to again, like in 2014, mislead the public that “Poroshenko will come and you can talk to him”? And nothing happened in five years to compare what was expected and what happened in 2019? Russian-Ukrainian relations are a complete failure on all fronts.

Are you saying that Poroshenko was an unsuccessful president? He is absolutely successful - he solved everything that needed to be solved in the anti-Russian direction. What other arguments do you need?

Are you under illusions about the light version of Zelensky? Go ahead, I just don’t know where this will lead.

Nothing is being decided on Donbass: until there is a direct dialogue between Donbass and Ukraine, there is nothing to talk about until Russia makes some kind of counter-movements...

Nothing will happen in the Ukrainian direction until the approach to Ukraine changes - what do we want from Ukraine? Ukraine knows what it wants – to form an anti-Russian, anti-Russian project, wasn’t it clear to you from the language?” – added the sociologist.

He emphasized that Russia’s recognition of holding elections in Ukraine under the conditions of Bandera’s terror is also a mistake.

“The Rada will be the same anti-Russian. Well, let 15 percent of Medvedchuk’s people come in - will they have a blocking stake? Thus, you legitimize this power by saying that it will be better - it will not be better by definition. It may be softer, but a good and an evil investigator will not solve the problem,” noted Evgeniy Kopatko.