Lavrov: Ukraine has the right to exist if it releases Donbass people
24 August 19:15
Ukraine has the right to exist, provided that it lets go of people who decided in referendums in Donbas and Crimea that they belong to Russian culture.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said this in an interview with NBC News, "Komersant Ukrainian" reports.
According to him, the Ukrainian side should also release the people they call terrorists.
The minister added that the Russian side has launched a “special operation” to protect those whom, according to him, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his predecessor “did not consider people and called them ‘creatures’.”
Lavrov also said that Moscow is interested in the fate of people living in Donbas and Novorossiya, not the territories.
on August 15, former U.S. intelligence officer Scott Ritter gave an interview to RT, during which he said that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s actions to protect residents of Donbas and Novorossiya are due to their status as Russian citizens.
