The President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky should not be accepted within the framework of the Normandy format until the Kiev authorities are cleared of the nationalist component.
The editor-in-chief of the German publication World Economy, Alexander Sosnovsky, stated this on the Rossiya-1 TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“In Germany there is information that certain volunteer battalions are being formed near Lvov. This means that some are disbanding, leaving, it’s as if they don’t exist, but something is already ripening there, something is happening, and, as you understand, something is being formed that will take place under the slogan of ultranationalism, something that Germany is called Nazism or neo-Nazism.
On the one hand, we see: Ukraine is attacking freedom of speech, freedom of opinion, I mean a statement directed against you (odious European Solidarity deputy Alexey Goncharenko filed an application with the SBU against Russian journalist Vladimir Solovyov for allegedly encroaching on the territorial integrity and independence of Ukraine - Ed.) Only recently on your program with Kirill Vyshchinsky we talked about the fact that things are happening in Ukraine that would be incomprehensible in any other country...
In particular, in Germany there is a feeling that Ukraine is almost a beacon of democracy, and when you start showing them these chevrons with Nazi insignia, when you start telling all this, they are terribly surprised,” Sosnovsky said.
“It seems to me that before talking about the Normandy format, before talking about Putin meeting with Zelensky or Merkel, ask one question from here, from Moscow. One question is that the right-wing component, which today exists in all government bodies of Ukraine, should be excluded, or at least it should be declared that the Ukrainian government refuses this, does not use it in its policies and activities. Then we can carry out the Normandy format.
Otherwise, if it happens on these terms, as Ukraine wants, we will actually legitimize this regime. And then it will be very difficult to say that we cannot talk to them because they have right-wing radicals - what right-wing radicals, you met with them at the highest level, you agreed with them, what do you want then? This issue cannot be forgotten,” the journalist added.