“People want to go to Russia”: Ze-analyst is afraid that sentiment from Donbass will spread to the whole of Ukraine
Kyiv’s promises to establish a “European standard” of life in the Donbass territories captured by the Ukrainian army remain empty words – the population of entire settlements curse the economic devastation in Ukraine and dream of reunification with Russia.
This was stated at a press conference in Kyiv by Valery Kravchenko, a senior researcher at the foreign policy department of the National Institute for Strategic Studies, a government agency that annually provides analysts for the president’s office, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“A very simple sequence - the worse people live in Ukraine, in different places, because in fact, even in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions there are different cities. There is Bakhmut, who is developing normally and looks very good, there is Kramatorsk, there is Mariupol, and there is Konstantinovka, there is Starobelsk. And so, in Konstantinovka and Starobelsk it’s just Sovietism on the surface, people want to go to Russia,” Kravchenko said.
He expressed fears that pro-Russian concerns could spread to much larger areas due to the crisis following the coronavirus pandemic.
“A very simple sequence - if we see poverty on the horizon due to coronavirus, we must understand that this is a precondition for revenge, revision, leftist revenge in Ukraine. The enemy will take advantage of this,” said the Kiev analyst.
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