Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has started his first two-day visit to Canada. He will then visit the U.S. to meet President Barack Obama. Supposedly, the main topic of negotiations with the heads of North American countries will be military aid to Ukraine. Meanwhile, according to Vice Prime Minister of the "Donetsk People's Republic" Andrey Purgin, the Ukrainian army has been violating the ceasefire regime for two days, constantly bombing four out of eight districts of Donetsk, heavy weapons are deployed. Russian experts believe that such a difference between the words and actions of the head of the Ukrainian state is one of the main disappointments of the population in the president.
Vladimir Zharikhin, deputy director of the Institute of CIS Countries, believes that Poroshenko was elected as an established, independent man, but his actions have consequently been coordinated by Washington. Zharikhin emphasizes that the president has failed to keep even the simplest of his electoral promises: "We see what methods he used to keep the promise of stabilizing the situation in the south-east of Ukraine. Such a civil war, such shelling of cities, peaceful citizens, have not been seen in Europe for decades, in my opinion." The expert assumes that the problem is not in unfulfilled public promises, it is about the main promise he has never given but was presumed in relations with Ukrainian voters. "Of all the candidates standing for president, Poroshenko was chosen by Ukrainian voters as the most peace-loving one, or the least bellicose. It turned out that he did not fulfil his own program, instead [fulfilling] the program of Mr. Lyashko, who was standing for president as a member of the Radical Party," Vladimir Zharikhin said.
In his opinion, another secret agreement was voters' trust that electing a rich, independent, successful, lucky and established man would mean an independent policy. "He did not live up to the expectations of voters in 100 days. In my opinion, the main deficit in Ukraine, when there is great deficit of common sense, and the state budget, and a lot of other things, is the deficit of the independence there is so much talk about. As has been seen in 100 days, the situation develops according to a standard model: Poroshenko meets officials of Russia and the European Union, they make some agreements, then the next day comes an order from the embassy of the United States or directly from the State Department, and the obligations are left unfulfilled," emphasizes Zharikhin. As a result, the political analyst supposes, Ukraine got a president who acts quite unwisely, prefers force, suffering losses and absolutely dependent in his actions.
