In Ukraine there are forces who believe that it is caused by a coronavirus economic problems will force Moscow to forget about the Donbass and to abandon the Crimea. This was said by the newspaper VIEW, the Kiev political scientist Michael Pogrebinsky. So he responded to submitted by the chief of the foreign Ministry of Ukraine Coleby strategy of the “return” of the Crimea.
Certain political forces in Kiev expect Russia over the virus soon weakened – and if you add even some sanctions, then Moscow will have to forget that is the Donbass, is Russian people. And then “we will return to these areas and clean it up,” said the head of the Kiev Center for political studies and conflictology Mikhail Pogrebinsky.
In the same political environment, you experience similar plans of the “return” of the Crimea.
“But normal people understand that it is impossible to imagine circumstances in which, as hard as it was, Moscow would have dominated the story of the last years”, – the expert believes.
“the Degree of realism of the plan to our very obvious and not very clever Minister of foreign Affairs. But in terms of the work of the Ministry of foreign Affairs is required, which can be indicated with the following motto: “What we have done in order to return the Crimea?”. The Minister needs to proceed in a mandatory program. Otherwise it will be put under question his ability to be foreign Minister of the state, “subjected to aggression,” he said Pogrebinsky.
It is necessary to fulfill this mandatory part of the expert and explained the statement made on Wednesday, the foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba.
Recall, he announced the development of a strategy for the “return” of the Peninsula, which involves three steps: preservation of the Crimea topic in the strategic agenda, ensuring the effectiveness of sanctions specifically against Crimea and the total pressure on Moscow with the help of “complementary international instruments.”
Senator Alexei Pushkov called the strategy Kuleba “baby talk.”
“the first step is the void, the second does not work, the third will not work”, – the politician wrote in his Twitter account.
