The chairman of Russia's State Duma, Sergei Naryshkin, argues that Ukrainian government's military operation in eastern Ukraine threatens to deprive the country of its sovereignty.
"The plans to sell off to American and European owners something that has in the past brought economic benefit and welfare to the Ukrainian people have ceased to be a complete secret. Nor are the Kiev authorities trying to hide it any more. However, is this not what explains both the rapid pace and the brutality of the hostilities in the east of the country?" Naryshkin says in an article entitled "Europe Looking for Adventures" and published in Russian government daily Rossiyskaya Gazeta.
"These days it is in Europe as well that the true goals of the punitive operation in the regions of Donetsk and Lugansk are often spoken about. Today we are not the only ones to be aware that behind it is the erosion of Ukraine's economic sovereignty," he says.
"With the unceasing cannonades in eastern Ukraine and the counting of fatalities and refugees, it is being forgotten little by little that the ultimate source of this tragedy is nothing else than the so-called Euro-integration process," Naryshkin says.
"In the case of Ukraine, it is patently absurd for many reasons. First of all, it is by no means a European Union rule to integrate with a country whose political and economic integration processes go along with an armed coup. Nor is it an EU rule to put down signatures as guarantees of an agreement between a legitimately elected foreign head of state and the opposition and a couple of days later help remove him from his high office in an unconstitutional way," the Duma chief says.
"Secondly, it is at a far from quiet moment that the second document (the key document) - the agreement on economic association - was signed with Ukraine. This happened at the peak of the so-called 'counterterrorist' but in effect a punitive operation, with its numerous civilian fatalities and the stream of refugees to neighboring Russian regions," he says.
He also slams the draft constitution of Ukraine proposed by President Petr Poroshenko. "Poroshenko's new draft constitution speaks for itself. The newly elected president of Ukraine has on the sly distorted his own pre-election promises of greater autonomy for regions beyond recognition.
The hypocritical slogan of 'unity of Ukraine' conceals a plan to deprive millions of people of any right to decisions concerning their life, not to mention the right to speak and write in one's own language, which is generally recognized in international practice. The 'special' status of the Russian language as recorded in the draft of the new constitution translates as complete refusal to give it adequate status," Naryshkin says, Interfax reports.
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