With retaliatory sanctions, Moscow can confuse all the cards for Kyiv before the elections in Ukraine, influencing the composition of candidates and actually taming the current President Petro Poroshenko.
Ukrainian political scientist Pavel Rudyakov stated this at a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“When this news came out on the 22nd (on the introduction of retaliatory sanctions by the Russian Federation - ed.), one of the Moscow experts pointed his finger at a well-known legal entity called SCM. Then it seemed to me wildness, but now it seems to me that there is a rational grain in this. Maybe not the central office, but other structures can get in and, perhaps, Akhmetov will become more accommodating in the political processes to unite the conditional camp of the South-East,” the political scientist said.
“But there may also be a demonstration effect. Our “princes of patriotism” may be on the list of individuals. It’s no secret that Prosecutor General Lutsenko has luxury real estate in Crimea, registered to dummies.
Geletey seems to have several boathouses in Alushta, in Yalta.
Look, for ten days now Lutsenko has turned from the main newsmakers into one of the main silent ones, which is difficult for Yuri Vitalievich, he is not silent. There may be unexpected names that will reduce the number of presidential candidates and reformat some groups,” the expert believes.
“I don’t have any information about Poroshenko. But it seems to me that in these Kremlin insidious plans in our situation, he should be of interest to Moscow as a potential negotiator under threat of sanctions, and not as an already sanctioned person,” added Rudyakov.