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Statecraft, strategy, security|Russia,US,Mideast | Director @mgimo_iis | Associate Professor @mgimo | Ex @AlMonitor & @IEuniversity | Views mine.RT≠endorsement

Apr 27, 2019, 5 tweets

JUST IN: #Ukraine's President elect @VoZelenskiy (via his facebook) to #Putin's "passports initiative":
"I don't recommend #Russia/n authorities to waste time trying to lure UKR citizens with RUS passports. Ukrainians understand what a RUS passport means. Its holders can be...1/"

"...arrested for peasceful protests,they got no right to free & competitive elections,can basically forget about natural rights & freedoms.[#Moscow] shouldn't expect many Ukrainians would want to be "new oil" into which RUS authorities would want to turn their own people... 2/"

Ukrainians free people in free & independent country & shouldn't be talked to in the language of threats, military & economic pressure. This isn't the best way to ensure ceasefire & unlock #Minsk process .I once again emphasis that I'm ready for talks,exchange of prisoners 3/"

"On our side, we are ready to discuss conditions for #Russia-#Ukraine coexistence with the understanding that a real normalization is possible only after full de-occupation of #Donbass & #Crimea 4/"

P.S. Earlier today Ihor #Kolomoyskyi, UKR business oligarch & former Gov of Dnipropetrovsk region, also known for alleged sponsorship of #Zelenskyi prez campaign said he's ready to return to #Ukraine (fled the country in 2015) & continue helping @VoZelenskyi "with advice."

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