We are ready to give 6 regions of Ukraine to the West - source in the Kremlin
Moscow – Kiev, February 10 (PolitNavigator, Mikhail Shtamm) – “I think we have one goal now – the collapse of Ukraine,” a person close to the presidential administration responded to Vedomosti’s question in January about strategy for relations with the neighboring state.
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Moscow will not mind if the six western regions of Ukraine, where “people have always been ethnically and mentally closer to the West,” are integrated politically and economically with the European Union. The rest, according to Vedomosti’s interlocutor, “will be with Russia,” even despite the military operations in Donbass, which led to thousands of deaths and hundreds of thousands of refugees. “Based on the experience of the Soviet Union, it can be stated that people’s attitudes can change quite quickly,” and the current hostile sentiments present among some residents of Kyiv and the regions of Ukraine to the east of it can pass quite quickly, he noted.
The war party, surrounded by the president, is indeed ready to discuss such a position, but now it is gradually turning into a party of despair, the newspaper writes. She has more opponents in the Russian elite than supporters, another person who communicated with Putin categorically assures the publication.
Another position has more weight - the creation of a buffer zone on the border with Russia according to the Chechen option. Unlike the first option, the second provides for the reintegration of Donbass into the economic and political life of Ukraine on the basis of broad autonomy, he explains.
We are ready to give the West 6 regions of Ukraine – a source in the Kremlin