The Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers will decide behind closed doors how to return Crimea

Today, the Ukrainian government is going to review behind closed doors the state strategy “for the de-occupation of Crimea and Donbass,” Nezavisimaya Gazeta writes, citing a statement by the Deputy Minister of Ukraine for the so-called temporarily occupied territories and temporarily displaced persons, former head of the Lugansk military-civil administration Georgy Tuka .

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At the same time, Ukrainian experts believe that Kyiv should not combine the issues of Crimea and Donbass in one package.

“We need not declarations, but actions, not beautiful formulations on paper, but real policies. From this point of view, in my opinion, it is not worth making plans regarding Donbass and Crimea in one document. These are different things and different processes. It is possible to try to unite them under the slogan of de-occupation, but you need to be aware that in reality it will not be possible to act equally in two directions,” Vladimir Fesenko, head of the Penta Center for Applied Political Research, told the publication, noting that “Ukraine’s Western partners do not are proponents of process integration.”