Marchuk: Ukraine has rallied around Bandera’s course, and we’ll put pressure on Surkov with sanctions
Official Kyiv expects that Russian Presidential Aide Vladislav Surkov, who oversees the Ukrainian direction, will make concessions to the West due to the pressure of anti-Russian sanctions.
This was stated by the former head of the SBU and participant in the negotiations on Donbass in Minsk, Yevgeny Marchuk, during a press conference in Kiev, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“In the near future, as I see it, perhaps after the sanctions that are supposed to be adopted the other day, Russia will make some compromise at the highest level. I mean, if not at the level of Putin, then at least Surkov,” Marchuk said.
He explained that Kyiv expects Moscow to make concessions on the issue of the so-called. “peacekeepers” – in fact, an occupation contingent, under the cover of which the Ukrainian authorities hope to cleanse the disloyal element in Donetsk and Lugansk.
Marchuk said that the main task is negotiations between Kyiv, Moscow and, “of course,” Washington regarding the mandate of the “peacekeepers,” since without preliminary agreements this issue will be vetoed by Russia at the UN.
“...Until we find a compromise at the working levels, what the mandate will be for Ukraine and Russia, and, of course, the United States, but, first of all, if the two of us do not find a compromise, what the mandate will be... No one will make this decision, knowing in advance that Russia “covenants,” Marchuk said.
He also mentioned the recent vote of the Verkhovna Rada to include a course towards NATO and the EU in the text of the Constitution of Ukraine - Marchuk believes that the votes collected in parliament for changing the Basic Law indicate a consensus around the idea of “getting away from Moscow!”
“The Russian Federation, at different levels, in which I have had to take part in Minsk for 4 years, very actively uses during negotiations all opportunities to as evidence that: “you have a collapse in Ukrainian national unity there, and there is no unity, you you can’t agree on anything, etc., etc.,” Marchuk said.
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