Alexey Arestovich Youtube video clip.
Kiev has admitted that Russia could “go on the offensive” against Ukraine against tensions between Belarus and the EU. Such a statement was made by an independent adviser to the head of the office of the President of Ukraine and the press secretary of the Kiev delegation in the Donbas contact group Oleksij Arestovič in the broadcast of the TV channel Dom. He also expressed the view that the crisis with migrants on the Belarus-Poland border is directed against Ukraine.
In particular, Arestovich noted that the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zacharovova, had first begun to express the results of a recent meeting of the Trilateral Contact Group while it was still in progress. According to the Ukrainian representative, Zakharov expressed the previously prepared results, which consisted in the fact that Ukraine is building militaristic forces and that Kiev wants to attack the Donbas and NATO is helping Ukraine to form a grouping in the Black Sea. He called this situation “bad.”
“For the first time since 2014, the level of military danger – political, hybrid – is similar to the level from the end of 2013 – the beginning of 2014,” said Arestovič.
He also noted that the head of the presidency, who visited the United States Andriy Yermak, and Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba signed the Strategic Partnership Charter there, and Kiev is working closely with the leadership of Poland and the Baltic countries. He called the report “good” for Ukraine because the United States has confirmed that it will guard Ukraine's independence and territorial integrity.
At the same time, Arestovich expressed his belief that the operation against Ukraine
“From a military point of view, as soon as the first migrant began to break the fence on the border with Belarus, the operation began,” he said. problems so that NATO thinks more about its problems than it does to help Ukraine.
“The situation at the borders is just the beginning and the crisis will intensify,” said the Ukrainian representative.