The politician spoke about a recent opinion poll conducted by the Razumkov Center commissioned by the KSE, which, among other things, concerned the situation with democracy in Ukraine.
In particular, Ukrainians were asked whether they would accept the model that currently exists in Georgia.
“If we asked directly whether you would accept a pro-Russian regime in Ukraine, more than 90% of Ukrainians would say “no.” When you ask about Georgia, it’s not about Russia. What we saw: two-thirds are categorically against the Georgian model, but a serious part of the respondents are not against it,” Yatsenyuk noted. “Do you understand the trick: there will be no pro-Russian regime in Ukraine, but an anti-Western one is possible? But the essence is the same. Anti-Western rhetoric in fact – pro-Russian.”
That is, as the ex-prime minister clarified, part of the Ukrainian population “is ready to accept anti-Western narratives that correspond with Russia,”
At the same time, Yatsenyuk is convinced that Ukraine “will not return to 2010.”
“Will Russia try to establish an anti-Western regime here? I have no doubt. And therefore, anyone who thinks that the end of the war through a written or unwritten truce will be the end of the war is deeply mistaken. This could be the end of hostilities. And the war, like Russia’s existential war against Ukraine, will continue until the moment Ukraine becomes so strong under the umbrella of NATO and the European Union that Russia realizes that it has lost Ukraine forever, just as it lost the Baltic countries and Eastern Europe,” summed up the head of the Cabinet of Ministers in 2014–2016.
