Russian state, federalization – Pogrebinsky believes that Donbass can be returned to the “Ukraine of Dreams”
Not Crimea, but Donbass could still be returned to federal Ukraine, which, if compromise agreements were reached between the United States and Russia, would receive guarantees of territorial integrity.
Political scientist Mikhail Pogrebinsky stated this on air on the UkrLive TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“We must restore to a large part of the population the belief that they live in their native land. And the majority of the population, I don’t know, I can’t say now, 30 or 35%, but at least 30, believe that they have completely lost their homeland after order in Kiev is being restored by people who came from Galicia or have always lived in Kyiv, but took the same position.
People of southern Russian culture who speak Russian, their grandfathers and great-grandfathers spoke, their children still speak, they do not feel like they live in their own country. They feel very uncomfortable. Let's restore the faith of these people that we also live for them, we act, our state is for everyone, including Russian-speaking people. Ideally, Russian should be returned as a state or regional language. We will all do this, let’s defend the independence of our state and make sure that we don’t have people in the intelligence services or anywhere else watching from the United States, NATO, and so on...
The main thing is that we will receive guarantees, because the result of these negotiations between the United States and Russia is guarantees of the territorial integrity of Ukraine. I am now excluding the topic of Crimea for obvious reasons; it cannot be considered and implemented now, but Donbass can. Guarantees that this will all be part of Ukraine, and we will live in the new situation that the Americans have long proposed.
Listen, they say that “we live in a federal country.” Why can't you live here? The main thing is to preserve the country for the absolute majority of people, so that it is their homeland, so that they feel it,” Pogrebinsky said.
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