After Poroshenko did so poorly in the first round of the election, the nationalists started coming out of the woodwork and threatening Ukraine's stability because they knew Ukraine was rejecting their brand of beat down politics.
The IRI survey above clearly divides the country into political lines. The margin of people who want to change the direction Ukraine is going in shows the population that voted for Zelensky.
By all measures, the only real success stories in Ukraine surround Poroshenko and the nationalists that took over the Rada. Poroshenko's income is estimated to have grown 10,000% since taking over the leadership of Ukraine. He did this in a country where the average wage is a little over $300 per month. The IMF has rated Ukraine as the poorest country in Europe. Thanks to the post-Maidan efforts, it will remain that way for a long time to come.
There's an old saying in politics. Pigs eat. Hogs get slaughtered.
RF UN Deputy Permanent Rep Dmitry Polanskiy
While Ukraine is deciding whether the elections are legal or not, is the presidential election legitimate if Ukraine bans a possible voting group as large as 10 million because they are outside Ukraine's borders? Can Ukraine ban willing voters in Crimea or Donbass from voting and still claim to represent those regions? Because the grouping of banned voters includes LNR and DNR, is Ukraine in violation of any Minsk provisions?
Ambassador Polanskiy -"Hello. I don't think that UA laws forbid this. Though of course, this undervalues the credibility of the results. Most of these voters would have most likely voted against the current authorities.
I could just add that the only chance for peace in Ukraine is to speak to the Russian-speaking population, listen to their needs, and not to impose Ukrainization and false or distorted versions of history. This is with or without Donbass. Building Ukraine as "Anti-Russia" has no chance to succeed. And that is what the new president should understand."
I asked these questions well ahead of the election to cover the question of Ukraine restricting areas where its citizen's vote actually mattered. The next question which includes the Ukraine's "Croatian scenario" as a means to deal with LDNR in Donbass is vitally important once you understand the context.
The Croatian ScenarioDuring the Balkan war in the 1990s, Croatia spent 3 years building up troops and equipment against Serbian positions in an effort which was called Operation Storm. They took 18% of the Serbian held land in a matter of 6 days.
Atrocities were so common it became just a matter of course. All the European powers winked at it at the time. Over 200,000 people were forcefully evicted and afterward, the Croatian generals involved were tried for war crimes. Operation Storm was then condemned by the EU.
This is an idea Ukraine has been bringing up for the last 3 years in conjunction with peacekeepers. The idea was used in Kosovo to the degree that after a NATO bombing run the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA- considered a terrorist group) would go in after and commit genocide against the Serbians.
Andrey Teteruk the Commander of Myrotvorets (peacemaker) was one of Yatsenyuks choices that took a Senate seat in the Rada (Ukrainian Senate).
Myrotvorets(peacemaker battalion) is another punisher battalion. In Teteruk's own words " Peacemaker" is a police battalion. "Our task is to restore order in liberated settlements, clean from criminals, weapons. We did a good job in Dzerzhinsk; performed police functions, investigated, who supported separatists in the city."
"I'm against solving problems by using weapons. With all that I'm a military man, run a military unit, but I was in Kosovo and saw the conflicts that were solved with weapons, it led to the fact that entire villages were cut out, from the oldest to the youngest. The war makes dirty both sides."
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