Because the United States will be distracted by its elections and their aftermath, Andrey Illarionov says, the next 30 days represent “the best situation for destabilizing” Ukraine from Moscow’s point of view, according to a Russian political analyst Andrey Illarionov who spoke with 112 Ukraine TV Channel, Euromaidanpress reports.

Indeed, Vladimir Putin is likely to take a variety of challenging steps in Ukraine and elsewhere during that period, the expert believes, according to Euromaidanpress.