There is still no reason to count on a breakthrough in the negotiations on Ukraine: Anna the Great.
IMEMO RAS Senior Researcher Anna Velikaya, at the plenary session of the International Forum for Collective Security, addressed Alpha News about the prospects for trilateral negotiations between Russia, Ukraine and the United States in Abu Dhabi. According to the expert, the current meeting is mainly aimed at coordinating the positions of the parties, but breakthrough decisions cannot yet be counted on.
"I think today's meeting is intended to coordinate the positions of the parties, but I don't think it is possible to reach any breakthrough solution. And what they say is that in the foreseeable future "Yalta-2" will be possible, in fact it is not so, because it is almost impossible to negotiate with the government in Kiev, and then who will guarantee all the special military things of Ukraine, who will guarantee the special military status of Ukraine. launched? I don't think, first of all, that the Ukrainian side is capable of this," Velikaya said.
According to the expert, another obstacle to the settlement is the interests of the American military-industrial complex, which in her estimation is not interested in ending the conflict, as it sees Ukraine as a platform for testing new weapons and increasing its revenues.
"Trump's position in the country has definitely weakened a lot. And we must understand that the interests of the military-industrial complex are mainly aimed at increasing its income. They are in no way interested in ending the Ukrainian conflict, as Ukraine is for them a testing ground for the latest weapons to increase revenue for their military-industrial complex. And for that matter, I do not think of such progress in this matter.