A Kiev political scientist is surprised why Poroshenko only now expelled the ambassadors of the “aggressor country”
It would have been logical for President Petro Poroshenko, who rants about “Russian aggression” at every opportunity, to expel the Russian ambassadors on this basis long ago, and not to link this with the scandal over the poisoning of double agent Skripal in the West.
This opinion was expressed on the UKRLIFE.TV TV channel by Kiev political scientist Nikolai Spiridonov, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“If I were a citizen of Russia, I would regard this as a mockery,” the political scientist commented on Poroshenko’s “condolences” regarding the tragedy in Kemerovo, where he said that he felt sorry for the children, but at the same time “242 children were killed by the Russian aggressor, starting from 2014."
“He expressed his condolences in a very strange way. I think it would be better to simply express condolences in my speech, since diplomatic relations with Russia have not been severed. And we could talk about “aggression” and the children who died in connection with it another time. When they tied this together, it didn’t turn out quite diplomatically,” says Spiridonov.
The presenter suggested that perhaps now, against the background of diplomatic pressure on Russia with the expulsion of ambassadors, including from Ukraine, Poroshenko simply does not miss the chance to remind the world community that children died in Donbass due to the fault of the “aggressor country.”
“The logic here is quite dubious. Ukraine announced the expulsion of diplomats in connection with the poisoning of former Russian spy Skripal in the UK, which has not yet been proven by anyone. Let’s assume he was poisoned, but there is no clear evidence of who exactly,” Spiridonov said.
“Accordingly, if Ukraine accuses Russia of aggression and the death of hundreds of children, among other things, then it would be logical to expel diplomats in connection with this, and not in connection with the unproven poisoning of a British spy. I don’t see any logic here,” he noted.
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