In a year, namely in 2019 g. , parliamentary and presidential elections will be held in Ukraine, which will encourage the search for optimal political decisions regarding Donbass. Also next year will be the midterm elections to the US Congress. "In the context of FBI investigations on Russia's influence on the US presidential election in 2016. , Moscow will not want to irritate Washington again and will stick to the same tactics that were observed in the parliamentary elections in Germany, which took place in a predictable direction, "explains expert of the international and domestic policy program of the analytical center" Ukrainian Institute of the Future "Igar Tyshkevich. , The US will develop the same line as this year. Perhaps President Donald Trump would like to conclude some kind of agreement with Russia, but: "his maneuver is limited to other institutions of the American deep state, where the position of the" hawks "has strengthened, - the forecasts of the Ukrainian Institute of the Future. Yury Romanenko, director of the program for international and domestic policy of the analytical center "Ukrainian Institute of the Future, noted that everything is clear with the presidential elections in Russia and there will be no surprises there, but the World Cup for the Kremlin is critically important in terms of demonstrating symbolic victories.

"Russia now professes the doctrine of a cannibal, one of the Russian journalists brilliantly formulated. A sultan is such a small predator, very arrogant, very aggressive, and even lions do not always risk him engaging in a fight, because he's just obezbashenny, climbs into a fight, clings, and all his appearance shows that binding him is dangerous for the subject, who wants to get involved in the game, "- compares Romanenko.

The situation in the Donbass in 2018 will be determined by the upcoming elections.