-Mr. Gonchar, are you expecting some breakthroughs from the two-day stay in Ukraine of the German President Steinmeier?

- No one. I do not think that one of the experts will expect any breakthroughs. Steinmeieris simply not the figure in his current position and, given the specifics of the presidency in Germany, of course, we can expect discussion of the whole range of current issues. But it is more in line with the German approach to continuing the dialogue - no more. I think that more practical results, but also very limited, should be expected more from the visit of Foreign Minister GaykoMaas.

We see in parallel very high German activity on the Russian direction. This is a long-standing principle: when you cannot do anything, simply continue the dialogue. That is what Steinmeier and Gaiko Maas will do. How effectively the Ukrainian side will be able to use this dialogue in order to try again to get to Berlin - the coming days will show.

The position of Germany to demonstrate firmness in imposing a sanction regime againstRussia is perhaps the compensatory response to Germany's completely inadequate position in 2008, when Germany and France actually blocked the movement of Georgia and Ukraine towards NATO. And we remember how it turned out: in 2008, a few months after the Bucharest summit of NATO, Russian aggression against Georgia happened. Well, six years later - and against Ukraine. Therefore, perhaps somewhere in the depths of German politics, there is a realization that what happened in 2014 - this is the fault of the German side.