Factor Nuland: Will Zelensky risk strangling Transnistria
It is important for Moscow to maintain at least some leverage over Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky.
International affairs observer Mikhail Rostovsky writes about this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports, in Moskovsky Komsomolets, assessing the visit of US Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland to Moscow.
“As I have written more than once, the impasse in Russian-Ukrainian relations fits perfectly into the American image of “what is desired today.” However, I would not call Russian-American consultations on Donbass and Ukraine completely meaningless. If you can’t achieve “to make it better,” then you must at least fight to “make it not worse.” And Zelensky, rolling back and forth on the “political skateboard,” periodically finds himself close to flying beyond the boundaries of even the current deeply unsatisfactory status quo,” the author believes.
According to him, “Ukraine’s maneuvers regarding Transnistria” are causing concern.
“Russia, as is known, does not have a common border with this region. And if Kyiv suddenly seriously decides to strangle this pro-Russian enclave, then “the evening will quickly cease to be languid.” It is important for Moscow to maintain leverage over Zelensky – even such indirect, unreliable, self-interested and openly hostile leverage as Nuland,” Rostovsky believes.
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