Russian Foreign Affairs Minister Sergey Lavrov says the future status of Ukraine’s Donbas should be like what Moscow has proposed for Moldova’s breakaway region of Transdniestria, journalist and political commentator Vitaly Portnikov comments. That would mean the permanent federalization and neutralization of Ukraine ensured by the continued presence of Russian troops.
The author of this plan, Andrey Yermak, a deputy prime minister of the Russian Federation, has been in active contact with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelenskyy, the Ukrainian commentator says.