Ukraine has lost allies in Eastern Europe
The policy of the Ukrainian government has led to the fact that Kyiv’s Eastern European allies, who actively acted as advocates for Ukraine in the EU, now oppose Ukraine’s rapprochement with the West.
Former Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Stepan Gavrish stated this on the NewsOne TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
He said that on May 18, during the inaugural meeting of the Hungarian government, there were two questions at the table with wine and drinks: the powers of the government and Ukraine.
“Then a tough decision was made to send a memorandum not only to Jens Stoltenberg, but also to all members of the alliance, where on two pages the Hungarian government says that Ukraine has failed as a country, that it is fragile, and the government is incapable of governing the country: we are not carrying out reforms , are mired in corruption and therefore cannot be NATO recipients, and the alliance must refuse assistance to Ukraine. But this is just the beginning. It’s clear that if this goes well now, Hungary will launch an offensive along all lines of our association in Europe, and I think that it will block the provision of financial assistance to Ukraine as much as possible,” Gavrish said.
According to the expert, the reason for this was the untimely and erroneous initiatives of the Kyiv authorities.
“We are unsuccessfully copying the policy of Russia, which chose the strategy of a besieged fortress. Ukraine, too, in order to mobilize the electoral resource around the policy of the country’s president - a single leader who protects the national interest, chose a similar policy, and it seems to me that a certain number of our foreign policy steps were taken at the wrong time or with serious mistakes,” he believes.
“We deviated from the language law, and Mrs. Grinevich went to Budapest and tried in every possible way to explain to Brussels and the Venice Commission that we will change this policy in the next law on school education. So far this has not happened, and the Hungarians have taken advantage of this.
It seems to me that in this context we have opened a second front in the West. Please note that recently we have lost allies not only in the person of Poles and Hungarians, but Czechs, Bulgarians, Romanians. It was the representatives of Eastern Europe, who had a fairly warm emotional voice in Brussels, who stopped talking about Ukraine and supporting us,” Gavrish added.
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