Coronavirus divides countries
The COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic declared by WHO did not force the warring countries to cease fire and unite in the fight against this threat.
The head of the Russian International Affairs Council, Andrei Kortunov, told Izvestia this, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.
“Even when confronting the virus, the inertia of old approaches is strong. COVID-19 became known at the beginning of the year, but this did not prevent the escalation in Syria or the violation of the ceasefire in Libya - against the backdrop of this virus, a lot of things continued “as always.” Some kind of catharsis and new understanding of the unity of the world has not yet occurred. This, of course, does not cancel countries’ assistance to each other. But now we see that the coronavirus is rather dividing the world,” says Kortunov.
A similar opinion regarding the conflict in Donbass is shared by the director of the Kyiv Center for Political Research and Conflictology, Mikhail Pogrebinsky.
“So far, there has been no significant reduction in mutual shelling in Donbass, so the epidemic does not have a significant impact on the course of the conflict and its resolution. But here we need to pay attention to the fact that in Ukraine there is no confidence regarding the number of infected - there is a suspicion that there are much more infected. Tests should start working in the near future, and then the impact of the virus on politics will become clear,” Pogrebinsky said.
As PolitNavigator reported, despite the UN Secretary-General's call, Ukraine has intensified its war against Donbas.
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