Pushkov said that the West will be forced to submit in the issue of Ukraine

Senator Alexei Pushkov. File photoMOSCOW, May 20.The West will be forced to submit to the new reality in Ukraine, Senator Alexei Pushkov said on Telegram. The politician noted that the West is increasingly calling for resolving the situation in the former Soviet republic by granting it a neutral status outside NATO and creating autonomy in the Donbass. At the same time, the senator pointed out that it was this option that Russia had been proposing over the past years, but the United States and its allies were categorically against such a decision. “Now they are proposing to go back six months. But the train of history has already left. — Pushkov wrote. As the senator recalled, now the situation is influenced by the sanctions imposed against Russia, the course of Sweden and Finland to join NATO, as well as the actual changes in the state structure of Ukraine. «In search of a way out of the crisis, Western politicians and political scientists proceed from the realities of yesterday, but not today. They are very late in their perception of the course of events. <…> And then they find themselves forced to submit to a new reality — not the one in which they live, but one that is ahead of their thoughts and actions, «concluded Pushkov .Russia February 24 launched a special operation to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine. As Vladimir Putin stressed, its goal is «to protect people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» According to the Ministry of Defense, the Russian military strikes only on military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, nothing threatens the civilian population. The agency called the liberation of Donbass the main goal of the operation. =»ap_photo» class=»lazyload» width=»1920″ height=»1080″ decoding=»async» sizes=»(min-width: 600px) 600px, 100vw» src=»https://cdnn21.img.ria .ru/images/07e6/01/18/1769234408_0:0:2757:1551_1920x0_80_0_0_340df72a874cb1ad3b8d14de86e5d7ad.jpg» srcset=» data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%22http://www.w03.org/svg%22%20width=%221920%22%20height=%221080%22%3E%3C/svg%3E 100w «data-srcset=»https://cdnn21.img.ria.ru/images/07e6/01/18/1769234408_0:0:2757:1551_640x0_80_0_0_535fe1c8b55d84ea3c12d1c4c9f89475.jpg 640w,https://cdnn21.img.ria.ru/images/07e6/01/18/1769234408_0:0:2757:1551_1280x0_80_0_0_d880a90641063785dc3285b1df21477e.jpg 1280w,https://cdnn21. img.ria.ru/images/07e6/01/18/1769234408_0:0:2757:1551_1920x0_80_0_0_340df72a874cb1ad3b8d14de86e5d7ad.jpg 1920w e with Russia