Moscow - The Russian Foreign Ministry has expressed bewilderment over the summoning of Minister Counselor Andrei Vorobyov from the Russian Embassy to Ukraine to the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry which warned him about the unacceptability of his statements made at a roundtable on the problem of Ukraine's federalization.
“Such complaints can cause nothing but bewilderment,” Deputy Director of the Russian Foreign Ministry’s Department of Information and Press Mariya Zakharova told reporters.
“During the political analysts’ discussion an opinion was voiced citing Ukrainian politicians’ estimates, about the current crises in Ukraine, and most importantly, the attention was drawn to the actual facts in the current Ukrainian reality, in particular, the creation in a number of the country’s regions of parallel authorities not subordinate to the central power, which can be interpreted as signs of a federalization process in Ukraine,” she said.
“What is subversive about it?” Zakharova asked rhetorically.
“We are also stunned by the fact that such a demarche is being undertaken by the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry against the background of almost daily peremptory claims, recommendations, demands and direct instructions on what to do and how to live in Ukraine, sounded by high-ranking representatives from various Western countries and European organizations,” the Russian official said.
“All these actions somehow remain without any comment in Kyiv. The question arises: why?” she said.
Ukraine is informally evolving as a federation, with alternative authorities being set up in a number of its regions, Russia’s Minister Counselor Vorobyov said earlier.
