Ukraine saw Poroshenko’s agony: Nobody believes in Russia’s attack
The military situation is perceived by the population of Ukraine as the agony of the regime of Petro Poroshenko. Ukrainian political scientist Ruslan Bortnik said this on air on channel 112, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Society did not believe at all that this martial law was necessary. I think this is obvious to everyone. They didn’t believe it in parliament either, and the perception was that it was an element of a political technological struggle.
In general, martial law is a very specific instrument, which in Ukrainian history was used once in 1941, and then not throughout the entire territory of the Ukrainian SSR, but progressively. Even in 1991, the State Emergency Committee tried to introduce a state of emergency.
The authorities, when introducing such a provision, must understand that this is an extreme tool. If it fails to be used, it will mean the collapse of power. It is a critical tool for a country's survival.
Still, the public believed that the president was trying to derail the election train, and the key reason was the latest socialist ratings, which showed that the president was beginning to lose to the leader, and other participants were beginning to catch up with him.
It was an attempt to break the stop valve, but there are no brakes, the train has a lot of inertia,” the political scientist said.
“Moreover, elections today are a stabilizing factor in the country, no matter how it may sound, because everyone is waiting for them, and no one wants to break the system.
If martial law had been introduced yesterday (with the cancellation of elections, - ed.), we would have seen the country in protests, and it is not known whether the country would have survived them, since other political players would not have had a chance to win under martial law. “Batkivshchyna” and all the others would have brought people to protests,” added Ruslan Bortnyk.
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