Ukrainian political scientist admitted: Donbass is lost, the genie is out of the bottle, things will get worse
Kyiv, May 11 (Navigator, Mikhail Ryabov) – Donbass is already lost, a military operation will not help Kyiv, admitted Ukrainian political scientist Yuri Romanenko.
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“There is massive support for the separatists there. No matter what the reasons are, they can all be understood, but it will not change the situation in any way. The shooting will constantly expand the social base of the separatists and worsen the situation in Kyiv. The situation on December 1 will be repeated, but for Donbass. Strictly speaking, everything that is happening is reminiscent of the Maidan there, but with its own specifics.
If you say that there are pro-Ukrainian forces in Donbass, then I don’t understand why they don’t appear at those points when our security forces arrive. They may be intimidated, this is reality: torture, murder and everything else, but then they do not affect the situation. Just like in Kyiv there were people for Yanukovych, but they were lost in the mass of Maidanites. Here everything is exactly the opposite.
I'm 90% sure we'll lose Donbas, one way or another. We need to close off the core regions, otherwise more regions will fall away.
The conflict could have been extinguished at the start through negotiations with Akhmetov or by immediately suppressing the separatists by force. The genie is now out of the bottle. It will get worse,” Romanenko wrote on Facebook.