The meeting in Berlin showed that we failed to defeat Putin - the Kiev expert called for us to come down to earth
The PACE resolution, in which Russia is called an “aggressor,” cannot be attributed to the victories of Ukraine, as yesterday’s meeting of the Normandy Four showed.
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This was stated at a press conference in Kiev by an expert from the Ukrainian Institute of Policy Analysis and Management, Vladimir Volya, who said that yesterday was in many ways significant in terms of the destruction of myths that “periodically produce some part of the Ukrainian political community,” after which the country “lives in parallel space."
“But after the latest praises about yet another victory, it turns out that in reality everything is far from being the case,” the political scientist emphasized. – After further exhortations that Putin will be punished, tamed, and so on, it turns out that the opposite is true. What was destroyed yesterday was that there was no victory in PACE. Statements about the inclusion of the word “aggression” in the title of the resolution are in fact an amateur interpretation, and from the point of view of European and even our language, this concept is too multifaceted. Now, if there was a wording “Russian military aggression against Ukraine,” then this would be an approximation to what is called “an attack by one state on another.”
“Simply aggression is pressure, obstruction, blockade, coercion, ultimatums, trade wars, visa and transit restrictions, that is, an active manifestation of ill will,” the expert added. – If you noticed, the President of Lithuania also called the deployment of Russian missiles on Russian territory in the Kaliningrad region “Russian aggression”. Just so you understand, there are no mysteries or contradictions in the use of words. There is simply aggression in a broader sense, and there is a more applied one – military aggression of one state against another.”
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