Ukraine has changed the formats of international communication today and has become a much more powerful state than before the war - Mikhail Podolyak
“Today, Ukraine sits at the negotiation table not somewhere on the periphery, as we are used to it, but in the center. And he says, no, these rules do not work. Complete the abstract to talk about it, let's talk clearly - that's how it works. This is very important, ”he said. Mikhail Podolyak recalled that for many years Ukraine in the world was considered a peripheral state.
But thanks to the stability of the Ukrainian people and the state in the war with Russia we began to be perceived as equal partners. “The president has changed this paradigm. We have to talk on an equal footing. We suffer losses, we have some responsibility, why should we come and ask for? No, we are partners, ”said the head of the office head of the head of state.
In his opinion, Ukraine has changed the formats of interstate communication today and as a subject is much more powerful than before the war. At the same time, Mikhail Podolyak noted that from the first hours of a full -scale invasion of Russia in Ukraine there was no feeling that we were in this struggle alone - there were a large number of calls from foreign leaders with words of support, in particular from the United Kingdom and the United States.
He noted that the interlocutors assured that they would be near and assist Ukraine. “Initially, three to four days, our partners did not believe that Ukraine would withstand the first blow. Then support increased, the number of calls increased . . . But from the first day, I emphasize once again, we felt that Europe was taking everything that was happening with pain, ”said Advisor to the Presidential Office Head.
Mikhail Podolyak expressed the opinion that Europe and the world did not provide such a powerful support for a full -scale war in particular because they could not fully assess the situation. “The problem of this war is that European analytical thought did not understand its motives, did not predict Russia's behavior and did not realize the forces of Ukraine. Therefore, they made the wrong decisions before the war, ”he is convinced.
The adviser to the head of the Presidential Office noted that by some moment civilized countries were afraid of the Russian Federation and did not want to give up a conservative view of a twopolar world, where Russia is an element that needs to be taken into account. “It had to be broken. And for some time the world was breaking and did not want to admit. And today they already give almost all types of weapons.
Simply, given the intensity of the war, that volume of weapons is no longer enough, ”Mikhail Podolyak said. According to the adviser to the head of the Presidential Office, significant changes occur in Ukrainian society and the political life of the country. “Everything will change significantly. There will be new leaders, there will be new political parties.