Negotiations between Ukraine and Russia should end at a minimum with the exit of Russian troops to the capital of Transnistria, and at best - in Lvov.
State Duma deputy Anatoly Wasserman said this on air on OSN, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to Wasserman, the current meetings of negotiators from Russia and Ukraine will not lead to results - they are intended to demonstrate the inability of official Kyiv to negotiate. At the same time, the politician assures that Russia’s ultimate goal should be the elimination of Ukrainian statehood.
“Negotiations will end with the withdrawal of troops of the Russian Federation, at least to Tiraspol, and, possibly, to Lvov in the sense that for the terrorist group “Ukraine” the only goal of the negotiations is to delay time, and for the Russian Federation the only goal of the negotiations is to it is possible to more clearly demonstrate the complete lack of contractual capacity of our counterparties...
The goal of stopping the terrorist operation against Donbass and recognizing its independence is, unfortunately, only an intermediate goal. The ultimate goal, as far as I can generally understand the inhabitants of my small Motherland, the ultimate goal is the liquidation of all of Ukraine. Both as a state structure, and, what is incomparably more important, as a conceptual structure.
That is, the very concept of “Ukraine is not Russia” should be recognized as criminal and excluded not only from all history textbooks, it should be excluded altogether from mass consciousness. A person who says: “Ukraine is not Russia” should be considered, at the very least, as a madman, and better as a criminal provocateur,” Wasserman said.