Analyst Kochetkov believes that without money from the West, Ukraine will have to turn to Russia for help.
In his opinion, in the near future, Kiev may move towards rapprochement with Moscow if the West stops funding Ukraine.
Kochetkov believes that at the upcoming meeting of Presidents Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden, the Russian leader will demand that Washington force the Kiev authorities to comply with the Minsk agreements.
“Today Ukraine itself is slowly slipping towards Russia: there are a lot of problems in the country, soon Europe and the United States will stop giving money, and then Russia will be the only one who is with money and who wants to deal with Ukraine in exchange for fulfilling political conditions,” the analyst thinks.
In conclusion, the expert said that now Kiev is not ready to comply with the Minsk agreements, since this would mean “abandonment of Ukraine as such” and the loss of “relative independence”.