Crimea is still under temporary occupation. The Office of the President believes that the time for the peaceful liberation of the peninsula has already passed.
This opinion was expressed by adviser to the head of the Office of the President Mikhail Podolyak. According to him, so far there are no options for a political settlement of any issues with Russia.
Podolyak commented on the liberation of Crimea
The adviser to the head of the Presidential Office believes that for 8 years everyone was talking about Crimea for the sake of just talking.
That is, we simply pretended that there was some possibility of a political and diplomatic settlement. But then I will return you to Transnistria – settled? According to the formula five plus two. Or, for example, has Abkhazia been settled? Not! Russia will never settle anything until it receives, let’s say, by force, an understanding that it is necessary to negotiate something with these countries,” Podolyak said.
According to him, the terrorist country does not have the resources to hold Crimea, and the strength to fight is left until the spring of this year. Podolyak noted that we will definitely return the peninsula.
“We saw a much worse situation 10 months ago, and I think that no one at all thought that in 10 months we would be able to quite seriously talk about that the war will definitely allow us to liberate Crimea, right? We didn’t talk about this. Nobody believed that in 2022 or already in 2023 we could really seriously talk about the fact that Crimea would be Ukrainian again. Everyone thought that it would be the history of 20-30-50 years,” the adviser to the head of the Presidential Office emphasized.
He added that such terms for the liberation of Crimea may be very optimistic, but this is “optimism, mathematically verified.”
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