Leader of the Batkivschyna party and Ukraine's presidential candidate Yulia Tymoshenko has said that Russia's aggression could be stopped through talks and direct pressure from the United States and Europe.
“We need to stop the aggression of the Russian Federation through
negotiations at a high international level, through the position of the
U.S. and Europe, and direct pressure on the Russian Federation,”
Tymoshenko said on Tuesday during a meeting with students at the
Drahomanov National Pedagogical University.
Tymoshenko believes that Crimea still can be returned to Ukraine.
“Crimea is Ukraine’s and it will be returned. How? I’m certain that
it will be returned thanks to consistent powerful pressure by the entire
Western world personally on [Russian President Vladimir] Putin,” she
said.
“If such pressure does not work, the economic collapse of Russia will work,” Tymoshenko said.
As for the actions of those who support the federalization of
Ukraine, they are the same in all cities – Donetsk, Luhansk and Kharkiv,
Tymoshenko said.
“The techniques are absolutely the same. Out of 250 people there are
groups of 3-4 FSB representatives, then foremen, who obey them… They do
not rely on support from the people at all,” she said.
The situation will stabilize soon, Tymoshenko said.
When asked what relations Ukraine and Russia could have and how they
should be built, Tymoshenko said: “The relations are very simple –
return Crimea and then relations will be built.”
