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| Kremlin rejects Kyiv’s accusations of preparing 'Maidan-3' |
| 2024-02-29 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] In Ukraine, processes to shake up the situation are brewing from within; they do not need any help, said Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov on February 28, commenting on the information that Moscow is allegedly trying to organize “Maidan-3” there. “Various accusations and statements regularly come from there, so we cannot respond to everything,” the Kremlin spokesman said. He added that now in Ukraine there are many points of view both on the elections and on the further legitimacy of the country’s leadership. According to Peskov, the processes to rock the situation themselves mature from within and no help is needed there. As Regnum reported, a day earlier the intelligence committee under the head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky, said that the Russian special services would soon allegedly make attempts to sow panic, incite a conflict between Ukrainians and the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and also question the legitimacy of decisions made by Zelensky after 20 May, when his term expires. The SBU even coined a term for this - Operation Maidan-3, which, according to it, “will reach its culmination in March-May 2024.” Zelensky’s office, meanwhile, has prepared an appeal to the Constitutional Court of Ukraine (CCU) to clarify the issue of the legitimacy of his tenure as head of state after May 20, as well as the possibility of holding elections. As the Ukrainian publication Zerkalo Nedeli explained, citing sources, those around the head of the Kyiv regime are not sure that they will receive the quick, and most importantly, the answers they need from the court, so there is no final decision on going to court yet. According to former Verkhovna Rada deputy, Doctor of Law Valery Karpuntsov, the Ukrainian constitution does not contain a rule that allows for the cancellation of presidential elections, so Zelensky faces criminal penalties for usurpation of power if he does not resign after the expiration of his powers. |
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