Putin was urged not to give any concessions to Zelensky: Donbass will not be returned to Ukraine
Vladimir Zelensky at the negotiations in Paris will probably refer to the actions of nationalists in Kyiv, but this should not be a reason for concessions to the Ukrainian president - he himself refused to deal with the nationalists, and now let him disentangle the fruits of his indecision and fulfill Ukraine’s obligations.
Donetsk sociologist Evgeniy Kopatko stated this on the Rossiya 1 TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“It is by definition impossible to negotiate with these people. They will be forced to negotiate...
There is one point. The fact is that you will remember how Minsk-1 and Minsk-2 ended. This was forcing Ukraine to peace. Now, if Minsk-3 is accepted, then something will happen that “Minsk” has never been implemented all these years. Now the Ukrainian government is on a tripwire that it set itself. The fact that they are waiting for her inside does not bother us and does not concern us. They are the ones who jumped into this situation, let them jump on.
Zelensky has a difficult political decision. Those who want peace understand that without an internal change in the country, you have problems that you yourself created and must solve them yourself, and not at our expense,” Kopatko noted.
At the same time, according to political scientist Oleg Bondarenko, at the meeting of the leaders of the “Normandy Four” no significant steps towards peace are expected; it is only possible to assume the disengagement of troops and the exchange of prisoners between the LDPR and Ukraine.
“It seems to me that no breakthroughs will happen today. The best that can be agreed upon today is a complete exchange of prisoners and the separation of troops. This is the best, I would say the ideal option...
When we hear that “they didn’t sign this and won’t implement it,” I want to look at the Minsk agreements from the other side. You know that in the DPR, LPR and Russia there is no majority who would agree that Donbass will return to Ukraine. In 2015, when those agreements were signed, then it was possible to do it without delay. More possible than today.
Now, during this time, a whole generation has grown up there; hundreds of thousands of people have gone through the war on both sides. These people cannot be removed anywhere, nor can they be liquidated,” Bondarenko concluded.
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