Assistant to the President of Ukraine for International Policy Andriy Ermak, during a speech at Chatham House in London at a conference regarding expectations from the “Normandy summit,” said that Zelensky has a plan “B” in case the Minsk agreements fail, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
The theses of Ermak’s speech were presented on her Facebook page by the head of the department of international cooperation and communications of the Diplomatic Academy of Ukraine named after Gennady Udovenko at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ekaterina Smagliy.
“We hear from our Western partners the surprise of the criticism expressed by the opposition regarding the Stanmeier formula, which its leaders agreed with them over the past three years,” officials quote Yermak.
According to him, Zelensky’s team is going to Paris with a “strong position” and hopes for the success of the negotiations.
“However, we also have a plan B.” If we do not see Russia’s readiness to implement the Minsk agreements and a clear time frame for their implementation, then we will, figuratively speaking, “build a wall.” Use the experience of other countries, especially Israel,” explained the presidential aide.
President Vladimir Zelensky personally announced for the first time that Ukraine has a Plan B in case of failure of the Minsk negotiations.
In the online community Zrada Chi Peremoga, they responded to these words of Ermak with an ironic remark that the promoter of the Ukrainian president was “bitten by Yatskeyuk” (ex-Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, who partially implemented the idea of building a “wall from Russia”, which was popularly named after him. In practice, the “Yatsenyuk wall” has become an ordinary “corruption laundry" for laundering budget money. As a result of the construction of this wall, several criminal cases were opened in Ukraine regarding multibillion-dollar thefts.
The online publication Klymenko Time was also skeptical about the idea of “Plan B”.
“Plan B is, of course, good. But not when, in essence, this is Petro Poroshenko’s plan “A”. With a wall named after Arseniy Yatsenyuk. The public demand for a solution to the Donbass problem is clearly not like that. But the Ukrainian side has to talk about this option before the “Normandy meeting”. Negotiating positions should include alternative options and ultimatums. The only problem with this strategy is that Ukraine is now more interested in solving the Donbass problem than Russia,” the publication said.