Experts are wondering about the status of Donbass and the deployment of Chinese peacekeepers there

Moscow - Kyiv, February 10 (PolitNavigator, Mikhail Stamm) - Europe agrees to the Transnistrian option in Donbass, but does not agree to Russia recognizing the DPR and LPR as states. The result of the Minsk talks on Wednesday may be the deployment of peacekeepers from India and China to the border between the Russian Federation and Donbass, experts say.

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"The West agrees to a freeze on the conflict, understanding that the Ukrainian army is incapable of retaking Donetsk and Luhansk by force," German political scientist Alexander RAR told MK . " Europe agrees to these republics receiving full autonomy, but formally remaining part of Ukraine. And it proposes deploying a peacekeeping contingent not only on the border between the rebels and the Ukrainian army, but also on the border with Russia."

Vladimir Zharikhin, head of the Ukraine Department at the CIS Institute, fears that on February 11, Minsk will see the same thing happen as a year ago, when Yanukovych and the EU signed a compromise in Kyiv, but the US still staged a coup. " While Europe wants peace, the prevailing view in the US is that war in Europe clearly benefits them. Biden and the 'war party' are now calling the shots in Washington. A weakened Europe will be more likely to listen to America," he says.

Poroshenko, according to a Russian expert, sees that the war is eroding his power and capital, and the likelihood that radical forces will remove him is growing. But as a US protege, he cannot resist the logic of war that drives the United States.

Zharikhin admits that Minsk may agree on the deployment of peacekeeping forces to the border between Russia and the DPR-LPR. At the same time, he excludes the participation of the Ukrainian military in the peacekeeping forces. According to him, it could be Indians, Chinese or Serbs with Belarusians in UN uniform.