You will answer for Puigdemont! Tymoshenko is being “tarnished” for a photo with Catalan “separatists”
The leader of the Batkivshchyna party and Petro Poroshenko's main competitor in the upcoming presidential elections, Yulia Tymoshenko, shook hands with the head of the exiled government of Catalonia, Carles Puigdemont, during the Crans Montana international forum in Monaco.
Carles Puigdemont himself published the photograph on his Twitter account , reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
Ukrainian publicist Oleh Khavich noted that the Catalan politician used the article "the" before the name of the country, which is perceived extremely sensitively in Ukraine.
“I wonder if the leader of the Catalan separatists, Puigdemont, will be included in the “Peacemaker” just for shaking hands with Tymoshenko – or also for using the formula “the Ukraine”? ...Ukrainian embassies write to local media - they say you need to write Kyiv and under no circumstances write “the Ukraine”. The number of such claims is one of the criteria for the effectiveness of the embassy,” Khavic explained.
Poroshenko’s headquarters immediately decided to take advantage of the situation.
“In big politics, such accidents do not happen. Tymoshenko’s meeting with the Spanish separatist is a signal to the separatists in Ukraine: I am ready to speak with you directly. This means that I am ready to recognize their subjectivity. This is all a step towards the withdrawal of Russia and Putin from the Minsk agreements. They cease to be a party to the conflict. Poroshenko, Merkel and Hollande succeeded in making Putin a party, with great difficulty in 2014-15, by seating the Russian president at the table in Minsk. Further. Sanctions against the Russian Federation are strictly tied to the implementation of the Minsk agreements. After all, if there is no side, there are no sanctions. And you can talk and write a hundred times on the boards about Europe-NATO. But because of such handshakes, the new course is manifested better than any words. The danger is greater than it is believed,” Verkhovna Rada deputy Vladimir Aryev from the Poroshenko Bloc expresses indignation.
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