Borodai told why they didn’t help Kharkov and Odessa
The Russian elite never planned either the “Novorossiya Project” or “Crimea is Ours”; in 2014, there was amazement in the Moscow corridors of power at the pro-Russian rise of the population on the peninsula and south-east of Ukraine.
Ex-Prime Minister of the DPR and head of the Union of Donbass Volunteers Alexander Boroday stated this on the YouTube channel of military correspondent Gennady Dubovoy, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“At the level of the state, the special services, there was no Novorossiya project, of course. Just like the Crimea project, it also did not exist and did not exist. Our government only reacted to what was happening, and reacted with some bewilderment, even for some time very high-ranking officials were in amazement at all what was happening: “What, the people themselves? How does this even happen? Himself, somehow without us?” - he said.
When asked by a journalist why pockets of uprisings were not ignited in other regions of Ukraine, where there were prerequisites for this, the former DPR Prime Minister replied that at that time there was no strategy.
“Our Russian authorities were clearly watching the development of events, observing. Benevolently, attentively, with a desire to help. But the main thesis was that only those who do something, who succeed in something need help,” concluded Borodai.
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