“They hate us there” - the mayor of Lvov does not want to return Donbass and Crimea
Today for Ukraine, a conversation about the return of Crimea or Donbass must take into account what consequences this will entail for the state.
This was stated in an interview with the Kyiv magazine “New Time” by the mayor of Lvov and the leader of the parliamentary party “Self-Help” Andrei Sadovoy, earlier announced that he plans to take the chair Poroshenko.
Answering a question about the possibility of returning Crimea, he said that “our enemy is a nuclear power,” and therefore “taking Crimea by force will be virtually impossible in today’s realities.”
“Here we must remember history: when Konrad Adenauer received an offer to unite the GDR and the Federal Republic of Germany, the Soviet Union was ready for this. Then Adenauer did not accept this proposal and said: “We choose between freedom and unity. I choose freedom." And when the Soviet Union collapsed, then his successor Helmut Kohl took over the GDR, and today it is a united Germany. Therefore, in any case today, the conversation about Crimea or the annexation of Donbass must take into account what consequences this will entail for the state,” the Lvov mayor believes.
“So, between unity with Donbass today and freedom, you also choose freedom?” the publication clarified.
“Yes, this is a big problem, because the occupied territories must undergo a serious process, I would say, of cleansing. People who live there today often hate Ukraine. If you go to Avdeevka now and talk to the local residents, 70% of the people who live there hate the Ukrainian government and Ukraine,” Sadova laments. “We must analyze history today: Transnistria, the situation with Karabakh, Ossetia are those conflicts that will be frozen for a long time, and only a change in the political course in Russia can give a breath of fresh air.”
As PolitNavigator reported, Sadovoy claimed that Lviv old women give away their pensions to continue the so-called “ATO” in Donbass.
Read also: The whole Avdeevka cursed me - pro-Ukrainian activist said about the mood in the city occupied by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
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