By Vestnik Kavkaza
Yesterday Christine Lagarde, the Director of the International Monetary Fund, expressed the view that Russia is not interested in the economic collapse of Ukraine, as a collapse in Ukraine goes against Moscow’s interests. Russia is an energy exporter, a creditor; and it wants to be paid debts. Of course Moscow agrees with Christine Lagarde and wants peace in the neighboring country. However, the speaker of the State Duma, Sergei Naryshkin, thinks that the only opportunity to restore peace and confidence in the government in Ukraine is constitutional reform.
At the same time, Kiev is not ready for this.
According to Adalbi Shkhagoshev, a deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of Russia, the Kiev authorities today cannot allow the sides to fulfil the political set of arrangements which were achieved by the Normandy Four in Minsk. The MP thinks that the Ukrainian authorities cannot reject warlike rhetoric, as they must continue to prove their readiness to fulfil their commitments to the United States, to the different European countries, that they will be able to reattach the DPR and LPR to Kiev.
Speaking about possible supplies of lethal weapons to Kiev, Shkhagoshev said: “They deliberately seek to do so, because their army is not ready for battle, it still cannot use lethal weapons. They cannot even use those weapons which are already there today - both US and European military equipment. They failed twice crushingly – in August 2014 and in Debaltseve. If they engage in the political part of Minsk-2 there will be another Maidan in Kiev.”
In case of another revolution in Kiev, the West won’t be ready to submit a nomination which “could take the belligerent, Nazi and fascist stance which is taken by the current authorities,” the Russian MP is sure.
At the same time, he thinks that peace cannot be achieved in Ukraine due to the American position: “It turns out that the peace plan is being implemented without the United States. How so? Brave people arrived in Minsk – Merkel, Hollande, and, of course, Putin. I cannot say this about Poroshenko, he was forced to come, because the United States said that he needed to be present there. But there was no Obama, there was no representative of the United States.”
