Ukrainian presidential adviser Serhiy Leshchenko on the danger of a world war, Chancellor Nehammer’s trip to Moscow and the chance for a diplomatic solution: “We are ready to be a neutral state.”
Die Presse: Russia is threatening to attack Kiev’s “decision centers”, including you personally. What is your reaction to this?
Serhiy Leshchenko: Russians are hostage to their own mistakes. You didn’t understand what Ukraine is. They live in this imagined Cold War-era reality. Putin is behaving like a despot. Like back then, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, when protesters tried to storm his KGB office in Dresden: he threatened to shoot them.
Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov said a diplomatic solution was possible. Where do you see room for compromise?