Russia should have taken Crimea “for safekeeping” and then returned it to Ukraine – Dobkin
Although Russia's intervention saved a huge number of people in Crimea from massacre, the Russian Federation should not have annexed Crimea. It was enough to take it “for a while” and then return it to Ukraine.
The former head of the Kharkov regional administration, Mikhail Dobkin, stated this on the PolitWera channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“The way this happened is offensive to me. There are pros and cons to this. Plus, what happened definitely saved a huge number of people from death. In Crimea it would be worse than in Donbass. There they would simply throw into the sea, like the Red Army once did, the White Guards who did not have time to sail to Turkey and Paris,” Dobkin said.
At the same time, he believes that Russia “could temporarily take a number of actions that would protect the population of Crimea from physical destruction, but not make it a subject of the Russian Federation.”
“I have no doubt about the desire of the Crimeans at that time in the referendum to vote for what they had already voted for. But it turned out as if hooligans attacked a guy and a girl, but they were protected by kind people, who then took the girl and took her away, and said “goodbye” to the guy. It was necessary to wait for this criminal regime to change in Ukraine, for people to come to power under whom nothing threatened Crimea, and then hand it back,” he said.
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