The West is nervous: Poroshenko may turn towards Russia
The EU fears that Ukraine's top leadership may change its political course and find understanding with Moscow.
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This was stated at a press conference in Kiev by the director of the Ukrainian Institute of Policy Analysis and Management, Ruslan Bortnik, who noted that Western politicians continue to meet with the President of Ukraine because of their own fears against the backdrop of their unfulfilled promises such as providing a visa-free regime, benefits from the so-called free zone trade with the EU, providing extensive financial assistance, and so on.
“Against this background, everyone is afraid that Poroshenko may betray, change his political course, find understanding with Moscow, and the country will begin to be taken in the other direction. Of course, from the point of view of our policy, we understand that this is very unlikely. We understand social pressure, existing political alignments in society. But for Europeans this is scary. They are afraid because this will mean the defeat of the policy towards all of Eastern Europe for at least the last decade. We see that Moldova has its own processes, and Georgia has its own,” the political scientist noted.
“That’s why they devote time to our president, they talk to him, they pat him on the shoulder,” the expert concludes. “That’s why Biden came, trying to leave Poroshenko in his zone of influence, but without providing anything in return, leaving our president alone with his internal problems, with a huge group of enemies within the country and a colossal anti-rating.”
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