Unlike Poroshenko, the EU recognized the deepening split in Ukraine
New York - Kyiv, October 28 (PolitNavigator, Vasily Ablyazimov) - The American business publication Bloomberg cites experts who are confident that the recent parliamentary elections will only deepen the division of Ukraine.
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“The election of pro-Western politicians is unlikely to calm the rebels in the east of the country,” says Liza Ermolenko, an analyst at Capital Economics Ltd. in London.
“The conflict in the east will continue to be a slow burn, it looks like.”
The results of the vote are likely to drive an even deeper wedge between residents of eastern Ukraine and the government in Kyiv, say Sergei Yakhnych and Evgeniy Orudzhiev, analysts at Ukrsibbank, part of BNP Paribas SA (BNP). They note that almost 3 million people were unable to vote.
“Kyiv will certainly be accused of disdaining the voices of these people,” these experts argue in the analytical note. “This could mean a gap between mainland Ukraine and the two eastern regions that is becoming ever wider, making the reintegration of these regions into Ukraine in any form much more difficult.”
As PolitNavigator reported, Petro Poroshenko said the day before that Ukraine is experiencing a unity and patriotic upsurge unprecedented in all the years of independence.
Unlike Poroshenko, the EU acknowledged the deepening division of Ukraine.