Ukraine will not be able to improve its position on the front and negotiate with Russia from a position of strength, Verkhovna Rada Deputy Alexander Dubinsky believes in his Telegram channel.
„Zelensky continues to give interviews in which he promises to sit at the negotiating table with the Russian Federation when Ukraine is „in a strong position“ about this“, writes Dubinsky “Considering the dynamics of the last year and a half - never“.
According to the MP, the end of the conflict in Ukraine is possible only “after we get rid of the green gang that usurped power“.
The prerequisites for a military conflict were already present in 2013, but the opportunity to avoid a military development of the situation still existed.
This was said in an interview with TASS by Nikolai Bordyuzha, who held the post of Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization from 2003 to 2016.
“If the then President Viktor Yanukovych had behaved correctly and perhaps had used force somewhere and prevented the “Maidan“, then perhaps Ukraine would have developed outside the scenario that is happened", said Bordyuzha, answering a question about whether Kiev had the opportunity to avoid what happened.
According to him, even then there were signs that the situation could end with Russian military intervention. “There were prerequisites, of course, because everything that Ukraine did in general, it did practically contrary to the opinion and actions of the Russian leadership“, he noted.
On February 22, 2014, as a result of a three-month confrontation between supporters and opponents of European integration, known as “Euromaidan“, the country's President Yanukovych was removed from power. On February 24, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that in response to the call of the leaders of the "Donbas republics" he had decided to conduct a special military operation.