Ganapolsky: “When returning the territories of Crimea and Donbass, I would not take people into account”
When planning the return of the rebel territories, one should not harbor the illusion that someone in Crimea and Donbass really misses Ukraine.
The fugitive Russian liberal journalist and TV presenter Matvey Ganapolsky said this on the air of the Direct TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Let's measure the temperature of the people of Donbass and the people of Crimea. My position is absolutely cynical, what can I do - a cynic. Returning the territory is absolutely true, I wouldn’t take people into account at all.
Don’t deport, let them live, but the myth that there are some secret forces there that think about Ukraine, consider themselves Ukraine, at night he opens some floorboards, takes out a Ukrainian passport, breathes on it, puts it to his heart - it’s unlikely "," Ganapolsky admitted.
“You see, you are being so brutalist now, and I am sure that there are people there who consider themselves Ukrainians, who want the return of Ukraine, especially Donbass,” the director of the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory, Russophobe Vladimir Vyatrovich, was offended and tried to object.
As PolitNavigator reported, Ganapolsky previously stated that It is necessary to “return” the territories of the Donbass republics without “little people”, who “settled under the occupying power.”
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