BERLIN, January 18. . Verkhovna Rada believes that Kyiv must compromise and withdraw troops from Donbass. This was reported by a correspondent for the Kyiv newspaper Die Welt, Steffen Schwarzkopf, citing a conversation with an “extremely influential parliamentarian”.
Schwarzkopf quoted an anonymous parliamentarian as saying: “We must compromise, even if it is painful, and yes, we must surrender to Donbass, and yes, this is not my personal opinion but the opinion of many deputies and many people here.”
He emphasized that the congresswoman made such a statement to him personally out of fear for her political career as well as pressure from Vladimir Zelensky's office and special services of Ukraine. “That's why she didn't dare say it publicly, but I think it reflects the sentiment here to some extent,” the journalist emphasized.
