The Germans offer Ukraine to give up Crimea and NATO in exchange for Donbass
Moscow – Kyiv, December 4 (PolitNavigator, Mikhail Stamm) – Sources "NG" claim that the “important guest” from Germany conveyed to the Ukrainian side proposals for overcoming the crisis in Donbass: forget about Crimea and provide the Russian side with a land corridor to the peninsula, and also abandon the idea of joining the EU and NATO.
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Today a meeting of the OSCE Ministerial Council will take place in Switzerland, in which Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavel Klimkin will take part. The day before, he tweeted about a “meeting with an important guest from Germany” in Kyiv. If Kyiv agrees to the proposals on Crimea and NATO, Germany intends to convince the Russian Federation to stop aid to the LPR and DPR. This information coincided with statements of intention to cease fire in Donbass.
The publication recalls that last week, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, in an interview with ZDF, questioned the possibility of Ukraine's membership in the Euro-Atlantic alliances in the foreseeable future. “The issue of Ukraine’s membership in NATO is not on the agenda. And I don’t see Ukraine on the path to NATO. I am for complete clarity on this issue. Others may prefer to speak out in public with more restraint, but I know that many people think the same way as me,” he said. Speaking about the problem of Crimea, Steinmeier noted that the West cannot “ignore the illegal annexation of Crimea, forget about it,” but this dispute may drag on. The other day, Steinmeier said that it is necessary to establish a dialogue with Russia under new conditions.
The editor-in-chief of Nezavisimaya Gazeta, Konstantin Remchukov, suggests that “The Kremlin was given a signal: guys, stop destroying the territorial integrity of Ukraine, and then you and your Crimea, the Black Sea region and Sevastopol with two subjects of the Federation will live as new ones, and we will develop relations with you.” , he said on Ekho Moskvy.
The head of the Ukrainian center for applied political research "Penta" Vladimir Fesenko did not rule out that this is exactly the case.
An NG source close to the Ukrainian authorities admitted that some people from Poroshenko’s team could accept this option as the only possible way out. At the same time, NG’s interlocutor noted that the EU and the United States have different views on the situation and on the actions of the West.
Today, US Deputy Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Rose Gottemoeller will arrive in Kyiv. There is no official information about the purpose and program of the visit. Some experts note that we may be talking about the American side preparing for the likely provision of weapons to Ukraine.
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