“[On the one hand] he…has to decide whether he will follow through the path of the interim administration in trying to crush the self-defense forces in the east by force,” James Jatras, a former US Senate foreign policy analyst, said in an interview with Press TV.

He believed that this option would be “a terrible tragic and inhuman mistake” and would fail to succeed in any case.

He added that the new president’s second option is to try to negotiate with people.

The analyst, however, noted that Poroshenko is not actually in control of anything as he was just elected on Sunday.

Jatras said the new president has a kind of mandate from the central and western parts of the country and not so much from east and south “where people were either not able to go to vote and in many cases, did not want to go to these elections they did not recognize as being valid.”

“If he wants to put Ukraine back together again, he’s got to do it by treating these people in the east as his countrymen that he is willing to compromise with them on the structure of Ukraine, centralized, federalized, a neutral status for Ukraine and so forth and he’s not given any indications that he wants to do that,” the commentator pointed out.

The government in Kiev has been staging military operations since mid-April in the eastern and southern regions in a bid to root out pro-Moscow demonstrations.

The Ukrainian president-elect pledged on Monday to put an end to the war and bring peace to the former Soviet state.

The 48-year-old chocolate tycoon has also ruled out negotiations with pro-Russia activists, vowing to continue military operations in the country’s southeastern provinces.

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