The region of the stumbling block

On May 29, 34 coffins with the bodies of the Volunteers killed in the Donbass were sent to Russia/ Photo: Vadim Ghirda/ Ap Photo

“Each of us is enough courage to steadfastly endure other people's misfortunes.” This caustic phrase of Laroshfuko has recently surfaced by itself in memory at the sight of bright, wealthy, walking, having fun Moscow. Few are bothering themselves with an understanding that only a thousand kilometers from here there is a war - with firing with explosive bullets, with broken helicopters full of people, crying children in impromptu bomb shelters, wounded, who do not sleeping days, doctors sew the intestines. And - with indicative executions. Blind hatred and dull despair. This is all today, now, and yesterday, in the Donbass, everything was almost, like ours, albeit poorer. And no one asked these people if they want blood, sweat and tears.

And will they ask us if what? You can have no doubt - they will not ask. The bell of Donbass, sorry for the high calm, calls us too.

After the victory in the presidential election on May 25, Petro Poroshenko, a vague hope appeared - will soon resolve. On the eve of the voting day, the candidate of the Tiriumfator himself managed to publicly declare that in case of victory, he would pay to Donbass to stop bloodshed. Everyone liked this statement - in Kyiv, and in Washington, and in Moscow. Moreover, no one pulled him by the tongue, he was already enough electoral glasses.

The inauguration of Poroshenko is appointed on June 7. Francois Hollande invited the newly elected president of Ukraine, “one of the powers-winners in the Second World War”, at the celebrations of Normandy on June 6 on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the allied landing. There will be Putin, whom the Western leaders seem to have decided not to drive into a corner - what's right. Someone suggested Hollanda (or maybe he thought of it himself) that he might not have been a more convenient reason to arrange a meeting with Poroshenko in the near future, and such a meeting is necessary as air, because politics is politics, and “personal chemistry” (remember how Medvedev and Obama) is still stronger-suddenly they will finish there, on the shore of La-Channel, and why not, and why not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, and not, and not, in fact, and not, in fact, and not, in fact, and not, and not, and why not, in fact, and not. To go, if Poroshenko has already postponed the signing of an agreement on the Association of Ukraine so annoying Moscow, which was planned on June 27: Yeah, some experts reasoned, Kyiv creates the desired background for direct contacts with Moscow. Yes, and from there, from Moscow, it suddenly came: “We respect the choice of the Ukrainian people” (this is about Poroshenko’s victory).

But here Poroshenko publicly states that the anti -terrorist operation in the east will continue. The attitude towards him in Moscow is changing instantly: again - a sharp cooling. The population again began to scare the Kyiv junta to the fullest.

If Poroshenko, before visiting the Donbass, is waiting for a complete cleansing in the east, it will be necessary to wait a long time: Moscow will not release the situation out of hand, will not go with a strong, as it seems to it, negotiation positions, will not allow the military defeat of the militias in the east. Poroshenko has one way out: to go there, without waiting for the results of the ATO, having previously giving the army a team for a ceasefire. And even better: go to the east of Ukraine after meeting with Putin in the west of Europe, albeit before his inauguration.

The Ukrainian knot is delayed all the same. A way out of the situation is only in the personal agreements of Putin and Poroshenko. They know each other, and there is still a chance to achieve mutual understanding. So far ...