Russian Federation Senator Alexey Pushkov has commented on the statement made by Oleksiy Arestovych, advisor to the Ukrainian delegation to the Trilateral Contact Group
Earlier, Arestovich said that if Western countries force Kiev to implement the Minsk agreements, Ukraine may “turn around” to China. In Pushkov’s opinion, this is a statement of a minor official and Kiev’s thrashing is not really there yet.
“Ukraine’s flirting with China, even if it gets some development, will cost it dearly in its relations with the West. The reason is that Biden is creating an “alliance of democracies” against China, and Kiev’s hopes for Beijing do not fit this strategy at all. They can only cause irritation in Washington and Brussels and a desire to put Zelensky in his proper place”, – the senator said in his Telegram channel.
According to him, Beijing also knows the price of today’s Ukraine and its complete dependence on the West, so they will not build special relations with it. Pushkov stressed that Kiev’s only foreign policy tool is constant blackmail.
“But blackmailing Ukraine’s Western patrons with rapprochement with China is an idea as unwise as it is fraught with trouble for Kiev, which will not slow down to come from its main, Western, direction”, – the politician concluded.