Everyone benefited from the Normandy format except Zelensky and Ukraine
Ukraine emerged from the negotiations in Paris as the losing side.
We are talking, first of all, about image losses for President Vladimir Zelensky, who showed himself to be a person who does not control the situation, invited only to sign a document prepared by the leaders of three states.
Former deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Aleksey Zhuravko stated this in a commentary to PolitNavigator.
“If we talk about the meeting itself, I believe that it can be assessed positively. The positive thing is that the format has resumed after a three-year break.
If we talk about how someone behaved, Zelensky was invited to face the fact that no one would cancel the Minsk agreements and no one would re-register them either - he would carry out what the three leaders said.
If we talk about whether Ukraine has lost, then at the moment it has lost. It is unacceptable for the leader of the country, who has 73% of support, to say one thing - during the negotiations he said that everything was agreed upon, and at the end of the press conference talk about separatists, about the annexation of Crimea.
Although Crimea and this issue were not raised at the Normandy Four.
Third, at the time of the negotiations shelling of Donbass continued.
Fourth, for the first time at such a high level I see that the Minister of Internal Affairs is coming. It feels like Cerberus was standing over Zelensky.
He was a kind of whipping stick, like we didn’t give in, we didn’t lose, the fight will continue.
Fifth, Zelensky behaved like a person who is not completely in control of the situation. This was the biggest blow when Zelensky said that he would not be able to cope with the Nazis and the Ukrainian Armed Forces, that he would not be able to completely disengage the troops.
In a word, he confirmed that he does not influence the situation,” Zhuravko said.
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