Czech President believes Ukraininan Civil War policy has two faces. [View all]

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Czech President, Milos Zeman, has told a national newspaper he sees Ukrainian policy toward ending fighting in that country's breakaway eastern regions as having, "Two faces." One face is that of Ukrainian President Poroshenko, who Zeman thinks is open to negotiations with Separatists, the other face is that of Prime Minister, Arseny Yatsenyuk, who Zeman believes intends to conclude the Civil War through military force alone.

Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk (RIA Novosti)


‘Premier of war’: Czech president says Yatsenyuk not seeking peaceful solution for E. Ukraine.


Czech President Milos Zeman has slammed Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk, calling him “a prime minister of war” because he is unwilling to peacefully solve the civil conflict in the country.

"From the statements by PM Yatsenyuk, I think that he is a ‘prime minister of war’, because he does not want a peaceful solution to the crisis [in Ukraine] recommended by the European Commission,” Zeman told Pravo, a Czech daily newspaper. Yatsenyuk wants to solve Ukrainian conflict “by the use of force," added the Czech leader.

According to Zeman, the current policy of Kiev authorities has two “faces.” The first is the “face” of the country’s president, Petro Poroshenko, who “may be a man of peace.” The second “face” is that of PM Yatsenyuk, who has an uncompromising position toward self-defense forces in Eastern Ukraine.

Zeman said he doesn’t’ believe that the February coup, during which then-President Viktor Yanukovich was deposed from power, was a democratic revolution at all. "Maidan was not a democratic revolution, and I believe that Ukraine is in a state of civil war,” Zeman said, responding to what he described as "poorly informed people" who compared Maidan with Czechoslovakia’s Velvet Revolution in 1989.

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