In his unprecedentedly harsh statement today regarding the attack by Ukrainian saboteurs on Crimea, Russian President Vladimir Putin actually spoke about the LPR as a full-fledged, and not a self-proclaimed, republic.
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This point attracted the attention of the director of the Center for Eurasian Studies, Vladimir Kornilov.
“Well, if Putin is talking about the leader of the Lugansk People’s Republic without any “so-called”, “self-proclaimed”, etc., then maybe the time has come for Russian TV channels to abandon these indigestible consoles?” wrote political scientist on his page on the social network.
It is also worth noting that the Russian president twice called the current Ukrainian regime people “who seized power in Kyiv at one time and continue to hold it.”