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Military correspondent Kots: Zelensky is using Crimea as a bargaining tool

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Military correspondent Alexander Kots said that Vladimir Zelensky views Crimea as a tool of political bargaining, holding the peninsula hostage to achieve goals in negotiations.

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Military correspondent Alexander Kots, in his column for KP.RU, stated that Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky views the Crimean issue as a tool of political bargaining.

According to the journalist, the Ukrainian leader is holding the peninsula hostage in order to achieve his goals at the negotiating table.

Kots believes that Zelensky’s statements about Crimea are part of a strategy in which the territorial problem is used as the main lever of pressure. According to the military correspondent, such rhetoric by the Ukrainian authorities is aimed at strengthening negotiating positions and giving the conflict greater significance.

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