Lavrov expects achieve partition of Ukraine with France and Germany’s help

The head of the Foreign Affairs Ministry says he is going to persuade his European colleagues to compel Kyiv to carry out a constitutional reform.

Sergey Lavrov has forgotten about his words in December and once again in flowery language demands federalization of Ukraine. The head of the Foreign Ministry of Russia stated that during the meetings in “Normandy format” both ceasefire along delimitation lines and proposals of Russia on “federalization” or “autonomization” of Ukraine are to be discussed, ZN.ua writes.

At his press-conference Lavrov stated that the reason for the crisis in Ukraine was not the Russian aggression, proofs of which had not been received by him so far, as he said, but a difference of views between the “nationalistic” West and “South-East”, invented by Russia. Russia means that “South-East” is a number of regions in southern and eastern Ukraine, even despite the fact that only one third of the territory of the two regions, Donetsk and Luhansk, are self-proclaimed republics.

As said by him, “the system-level task” of Russia is carrying out a constitutional reform in Ukraine, TASS reports.

“It is to be discussed in Berlin as well – the necessity of adopting a political decision to support this approach for Kyiv,” Lavrov said, adding that the constitutional reform is “kept on ice” by the Ukrainian authorities.

“Even mentioning of the words “federalization”, “autonomisation”, “decentralization” are becoming inappropriate from the point of view of Kyiv authorities,” Lavrov complains, forgetting that the reform of decentralization had been launched in Ukraine already, and it is mentioned by the Ukrainian authorities regularly.

Moreover, Lavrov expressed misunderstanding why Ukraine should be a wholly unitary state at all, despite the interests of “Russian” in it.

“For some reason Ukraine should be a unitary state, no matter what interests Russians, Hungarians, Romanians and other peoples living in Ukraine have in it,” Lavrov fumed.

According to the vision of Lavrov, the reform demanded by Russia could reconcile “the nationalistic West, the central part and South East, which have different heroes.”

Though the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry is careful with the terms, and does not publicly demand a federal structure for Ukraine any more, like it was mentioned many times by Lavrov and other Russian leaders in March 2014, the constitutional reform in fact means a split in the unitary structure of the state, with devolving considerable power on eastern regions of Ukraine, including the ones blocking foreign political decisions of the country.

But as early as in December 2014 Lavrov went back on his word and said that Russia does not offer federalization of Ukraine.