People in Kyiv are racking their brains as to why Medvedev gave Pushilin a United Russia party card.
In Kiev, they continue to build various versions as to what lies behind this or that step to integrate Donbass into Russia, trying to discern in the situation at least a hint of the hypothetical possibility of the LDPR returning to Ukraine and the readiness of Moscow to make concessions under US pressure.
The head of the Center for Analysis and Strategies, Igor Chalenko, spoke at a press conference in Kyiv with another batch of conspiracy theories, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Why didn’t the Russian Federation want to meet with Zelensky on the issues of Crimea and Donbass before? Since Crimea is a closed issue for her, Donbass is an internal Ukrainian problem. But after that, about 600 thousand passports of Russian citizens were distributed on the territory of ORDLO, and all the leadership in ORDLO today received United Russia tickets.
That is, today these are representatives of the party in power in the Russian Federation, and not only did they receive it, but Pushilin received a party card from the hands of Dmitry Medvedev. That is, in fact, in this way, the Russian Federation is creating a window for maneuver for itself to say that we are now not just an internal Ukrainian conflict, but we are solving the issue of our Russian citizens. This is actually a good window of opportunity.
They do not include ORDLO according to the principle of Crimea, how many times have we already seen calls that let’s include it, no, this is not being done. It’s just that today a window is being formed that will allow the Russian Federation not to lose face in the future, including for its citizens and the position that has been produced since 14.
By the way, not only the position has changed on this, but it was said that the US was involved in the Normandy format, Russia gave a signal that it already seemed to agree. True, from the point of view of forcing Kyiv to comply with the Minsk conditions. But at least there has been some progress here,” said the Ukrainian expert.
“We cannot now, from the point of view of today, talk about the victory of the Russian Federation or the Ukrainian position on the Donbass issue. I am sure that negotiations will continue for at least another month. Now there is a war of diplomacy. That is, they will not actively fire guns at the front, but will try to raise the temperature of these negotiations,” added Chalenko.
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