Russia will be able to trust the new Ukrainian president only after Vladimir Zelensky stops supporting nationalists, establishes peace in Donbass and abandons the Russophobic policies of his predecessor.
Mikhail Markelov, adviser to the head of the United Russia faction in the State Duma of the Russian Federation, stated this on the Rossiya 1 TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“We will believe Zelensky in the event that all radicals and neo-Nazis are finally outlawed, when criminal prosecutions begin against them, when the Russian language regains its status. When the quick and tough end to the war in Donbass that he promised is realized, all the people who are suffering, whom we will not abandon or betray, will feel it. And when, finally, Zelensky admits that Russia is not an aggressor country,” Markelov said.
However, according to former adviser to the Head of the DPR, writer Zakhar Prilepin, the most convenient position for the Ukrainian establishment is to continue the policy of war and opposition to “Russian aggression.”
“The most convenient position for Ukraine is the logic of war, the logic of constant confrontation, constant aggression and constant fear of betrayal by its own elites.
And in this logic, any things that begin to happen cause an enraged reaction from the radicals that they have betrayed again, everything is lost again. In addition, there are various internal political currents here due to Zelensky, who commits various political acts, and any things that are used under him are used to destabilize his position and lower his rating,” the writer added.