Putin trolls Poroshenko: Agreed to federalization, but under a different name
Kyiv, February 17 (PolitNavigator, Mikhail Ryabov) - The Ukrainian leadership at the negotiations in Minsk agreed on the need to change the Constitution to provide Donbass with powers equivalent to autonomy or a member of the federation, even under a different name.
Russian President Vladimir Putin stated this at a press conference in Budapest, commenting on the situation near Debaltsevo at the request of journalists.
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“The official authorities in Kyiv, in fact, agreed to carry out a deep constitutional reform in order to satisfy the requests for a certain independence (no matter what it is called - decentralization, autonomization, federalization) of individual regions of their country. This is a very significant underlying meaning of the decision on the part of the official authorities.
There is another side. If representatives of Donbass agreed to take part in the discussion of this reform, we are witnessing a certain progress towards Ukrainian statehood...
Of course, the faster the clause on the cessation of hostilities and the withdrawal of equipment is implemented, the faster real conditions will be created for the political settlement to enter a real phase,” Putin said.
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