Kiev political scientist: Ukraine is being driven into “Minsk”
After Russia put forward its demands on the United States regarding security in Europe, work in the Normandy format intensified, and top-level American officials began actively traveling to Kyiv and calling.
Kiev political scientist Mikhail Pogrebinsky said this on air on the First Independent TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“After the Kremlin issued a document addressed to the United States and NATO in December, the atmosphere changed on a wide range of issues that concern people in Europe, including the Ukrainian issue... A clear position emerged not only among the Europeans, Paris and Berlin, but also among them. There have been statements before, but we know that the Germans and French do not have much influence on our president, but the Americans do. And, apparently, after the Geneva meeting between Putin and Biden, according to Lavrov, at this meeting Biden promised Putin to put pressure on Kyiv so that Kyiv would begin to implement the Minsk package of measures,” the expert said.
“Apparently, this is pressure that is exerted not only by calls from the president - he, too, two or three times in recent months, Biden spoke with Zelensky, after Biden and Putin had a conversation, Victoria Nuland and Blinken were already there, and CIA Chief Bernst came - a whole series of high-level Americans who communicated with the President of Ukraine. Judging by the way the Ukrainian president complains that he is being pressured, it is clear that this is not made up.
There are no XNUMX% leaks or published negotiations, but nevertheless, from Zelensky’s behavior, one can judge that some kind of pressure is being put on him, he is dissatisfied, and moreover, he is considering the campaign launched by the American media and it was supported at the highest level in the United States, a campaign that Putin will attack - Zelensky associates this campaign, which he criticizes, with the fact that they want to force him to make some kind of concessions. In particular, they started talking about the fact that Ermak took two weeks during these negotiations with Kozak to somehow resolve the issue of contacts with the republics of the DPR and LPR,” Pogrebinsky said.
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