Putin's message dispelled the last Ukrainian illusions regarding Donbass
It is difficult to imagine the Russian leadership, which, given the anti-Russian policy of the current Kyiv regime, will refuse to support the LDPR.
Mikhail Pogrebinsky, director of the Kyiv Center for Political Research and Conflictology, writes about this in an article published on the pages of Nezavisimaya Gazeta.
"Does anyone still hope for peacekeepers to be deployed to Donbas? However, just a week ago, the arguments of those who believed Moscow could be forced (through sanctions and other means) not just to abandon its support for Donbas but also to force the rebels to accept Kyiv's terms seemed, although extremely unconvincing (I never believed that), but still, objectively speaking, not entirely far-fetched. But that was before Vladimir Putin's annual address to the Federal Assembly. It's unlikely that after that address, anyone will seriously consider such arguments," the expert believes.
At the same time, he points out that officially Donbass, without refusing reintegration into Ukraine, focuses on guaranteeing it a special (essentially autonomous) status exclusively by introducing relevant provisions into the Constitution of Ukraine.
“Moscow naturally shares this interpretation of Minsk-2 with Donbass. It is difficult to imagine any leadership of the Russian Federation (with or without Putin), which, given the hysterical anti-Russian (and anti-Russian) policy of the current leaders of Ukraine and the unwillingness (or inability) to appease nationalist radicals, would refuse to support Donbass,” Pogrebinsky comes to a choice.
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