Putin Softens and Supports Presidential Pulse in Ukraine

The Russian president Vladimir Putin said that the presidential elections of May 25 in Ukraine are “a step in the right direction” and has thus supported a key first elections to stabilize the plight of this country. In addition, Putin has asked the federalists and separatists in the eastern regions currently facing Kiev with weapons in hand, to postpone the referendum on self-determination scheduled for May 11 in order to “create the conditions box. “

The elections “will not solve anything if Ukrainian citizens do not understand how their rights will be guaranteed after celebrating them,” Putin said, according to which ” direct dialogue between the authorities and representatives of Kiev southeastern Ukraine is a key element regulation “of the conflict. “Must Condition” to the beginning of this dialogue, he said, is “the cessation of all violence.”

Manifestations of Putin and his appeal to the “authorities of Kiev” were made after talks in Moscow with Didieer Burkhalter, President of Switzerland, which currently heads the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). During the past weekend, President’s press chief, Dmitri Peskov, described as ” absurd ” the presidential elections in Ukraine.

Whatever the calculations and rationales for Putin, his words are the first halt (at least verbal) in a continuous escalation of international tensions, unprecedented since the end of the Cold War. This escalation began with the struggle around the strategic course of Ukraine (to the European Union through the Association Agreement or to Eurasia by entering the Customs Union) in the fall of 2013; continued with demonstrations on Independence Square in Kiev (the Euromaidán); complicated with dozens of deaths and organizing forces ” Antimaidán ” and finally precipitated, two and a half months ago, when breached the agreements reached on 21 February by President Viktor Yanukovych and the leaders of the parliamentary opposition, the backing of several European countries and the presence of a Russian representative.

Leaders of the opposition in Ukraine, today the interim leaders of the country until the elections, have been treated as “Board” and ” self-proclaimed authorities ” by the Kremlin, which used the argument of lack of legitimacy to annex the Crimea in violation of international agreements signed with Ukraine.

Russian President stressed that the interim leaders of Ukraine are responsible for the crisis and organizers of a ” coup ” and ” have not worried disarm the radical right-wing and nationalist elements “. However, Putin said he was interested in finding ” a way out of the situation that has been created at this time.”

The Kremlin leader went to the Kiev authorities to discontinue all ” punitive military operations in southeastern Ukraine” and noted that “this method” is not the right way to “solve an internal conflict” and “does only deepened the schism. ” Until recently, Putin insisted on asserting Russia’s right to defend the interests of the Russian-speaking Ukraine. Now, referring to an internal conflict, the Russian leader seems to distance himself from those positions and who expect Moscow to help them and protect them, if necessary with weapons and military support.

Putin said host ” positively” Pavel gubarev release from prison in Kiev, but insisted he should be released ” all political prisoners.” Gubarev, which apparently was traded by an officer of the Security Service of Ukraine, is the most charismatic of the so-called People’s Republic of Donetsk leader, the organizer of the referendum scheduled for May 11.

Even before the Russian leader ‘s comments, the referendum seemed problematic, given the clashes between federalists and separatists government troops acting as part of an operation that the Ukrainian provisional government calls ” terrorism “. The extension of the fighting produces a trail of victims and a chain reaction involving new elements in the race. RPD Fighters are a set of heterogeneous forces, who include Russian Cossacks arrived, natives of Crimea and the Russian Army veterans with different passports. However, for now, are not regular military units of Russia.

Putin also said that Russian troops had withdrawn from the border with Ukraine in response to “concerns” that caused its location. The troops, he said, are in ” their place of regular training.”

The president expressed his readiness to “seek ways out of the crisis ” and warned that voting for meaningful rights for ” all citizens ” should be protected.

It is not clear what were the key arguments for changing the rhetoric of Putin, who a few weeks ago insisted on the right of his country to defend the Russian speakers in Ukraine, regardless of your passport, if the quota is looked threatened. Now, the way to express the president outlined a change of concepts to bring to the forefront an internal conflict within Ukraine. At the origin of the change in rhetoric can be a combination of different reasons, such as Western sanctions and, above all, the prospect of future sanctions for several years can minimize the European customers of Russian hydrocarbons. With the numbers in hand and in private, Russian economic experts have confronted Putin with huge costs that the “absorption” of Russia and Crimea supposed to have warned that the Russian economy is not in a position to meet the much higher costs that would take over maintenance of the mining and industrial region of Donetsk, especially now that Russia has already entered recession.

A war economic arguments the arguments are added. In Crimea, where most of the population sympathized with Russia, the ” green men ” (Russian soldiers) found no resistance. In the rest of Ukraine would not, because the Ukrainians have you reacted and are willing to fight for their land, whatever their degree of organization and military capabilities, said Odessa political Alexei Goncharenko, one of the promises of the new generations Ukrainian.

Whatever their economic efficiency, sanctions have produced a certain isolation of Russia, as reflected in the next session of the International Economic Forum in St. Petersburg, which this year will secondary figures and no senior executives recently they liked to sit at the same table with Putin. On the psychological level, the presence of the Chairman on 9 May, the anniversary celebrations of the end of World War II in Sevastopol, Crimea, surely excite the inhabitants of that city. However, on the backdrop of skirmishes and battles and fear of Russian intervention in eastern Ukraine, some associate the image of Russia as heir to the winner country in 1945 with the image of the country and the leader they were defeated then.

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