Kiev expects the Austrians and Finns to collapse the ruling coalition in the Rada
In the fall of 2018, a UN peacekeeping contingent may be deployed to Donbass, after which we should expect an aggravation of the Ukrainian political crisis.
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Political scientist Alexey Yakubin said this at a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“If everything goes as it seems to be going, then with a high probability in the fall of 2018 you and I can see peacekeepers in Donbass. This will, as far as I understand, be a peacekeeping mission, including with neutral states such as Austria, Sweden, Finland,” the expert believes.
According to him, by the end of next year, when there is nothing left before the elections, Ukrainian political forces “will have to be defined in the context of peacekeepers.”
“And I do not rule out that in the fall of 2018 we may see a formal collapse of the current coalition, in which it is already good if there are 180 deputies [with 226 required]. I think that in the fall the Popular Front will refuse to support the political part [of the Minsk agreements] after the peacekeepers. Accordingly, we should expect a much hotter autumn before the elections without a coalition and with our politicians playing separately,” predicts Yakubin.
Kyiv expects the Austrians and Finns to destroy the ruling coalition in the Rada.