Moscow sees no reason for the return of Donbass to Ukraine
Ukraine has not taken a single step to return Donbass politically, the reintegration of the LDPR is already unlikely, writes on the pages of the publication “Current Comments” Russian political scientist Alexey Chesnakov.
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“The main responsibility lies with Kyiv politicians. For now, the republics are holding a pause and are not making (even to their own detriment) new political decisions. Every week Kyiv gives reasons to demonstrate to Donbass its unwillingness to coexist together according to general rules. Increasing quotas for the Ukrainian language in the media, introducing new language restrictions, banning the use of Russian social networks, etc. The Kiev City Council is demonstratively renaming Vatutina Avenue to Shukhevych Avenue, showing not so much the people of Kiev as the residents of Donetsk and Lugansk what the ideology of the modern Ukrainian state is, to which they are offered to return, and even in the status of second-class citizens,” the author notes.
“Kyiv continues to consider the only possible scenario for the development of events to be a complete victory over Donetsk and Lugansk. Or he goes for outright sabotage of agreements, as in the case of the separation of the parties in the area of the village of Lugansk. Poroshenko and his team are only inventing new threats to Donbass instead of demonstrating that there is no danger for those who think differently in a “united Ukraine”. Kyiv wants to force people to come to terms with their values, instead of supporting common ones,” the expert states.
“Poroshenko says that Moscow should “influence the separatists,” and the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Turchynov, when asked when the war will end, suddenly answers: “When we take Moscow, then it will end.” Moscow's proposal to take a step forward is accompanied not even by threats, but by insults. The statements of a fool can be treated with humor if he is a simple fool. But Turchinov is not a simple fool, but a curator of security policy and law enforcement agencies. And that's a different conversation.
With such statements, by the end of the year there will be even less chance that it will be possible to move the peace process off the ground and begin to restore at least some common political space between Kyiv and Donbass. This is already impossible now, and in six months it will be obvious even to those who for some reason are forced to remain a ukro-optimist. The trajectories of internal political development between the two territories have diverged too much. Too noticeably, right before our eyes, this discrepancy continues. And there are no signals that these trajectories could ever intersect again,” sums up Chesnakov.
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