Pogrebinsky announces confrontation between Zelensky and “street punks”
Due to public sentiment, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky will be forced to change his policy regarding the criminal prosecution of the former head of state Petro Poroshenko.
Mikhail Pogrebinsky, director of the Kyiv Center for Political Research and Conflictology, said this on air on the Voice of Pravda channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Today they published a survey by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology, which shows that the majority of people are on the side of the criminal prosecution of Poroshenko. He [Zelensky] definitely reads this, and he cannot completely ignore it. There are a whole series of questions there that make it clear that if you don’t stop, then things will get worse, your situation will get worse in the future. Therefore, something will have to be done.
In our country there are actually very few of these radicals, decisive people. These punks who run through the streets, football fans and so on - as soon as the authorities show that they are ready to simply use the force of the law against them, the absolute majority of them will stop participating.
The radicals will remain, that's true. In order for them to proceed with their attentate [terrorist attack] and so on, there must be some decisive steps to abandon the course. I don’t expect this, it won’t happen under this president. And it is simply impossible to avoid some kind of confrontation between the state and these punks; I think we are now simply witnesses to some kind of pause,” the political scientist believes.
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