Strelkov received a wide platform in the Ukrainian media - to campaign for Novorossiya and the collapse of "Independence"
The population of Ukraine will only benefit from joining a single Russian state stretching from Murmansk to Sevastopol, because it is better to be part of a powerful superpower than to suffer in a post-Maidan Ukraine torn apart by the West.
Former DPR Defense Minister Igor Strelkov spoke about this via video link from Moscow in an interview with Ukrainian propagandist Dmitry Gordon, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Crimea alone without at least northern Tavria, at least without Dnepropetrovsk, not being connected to Russia by land, it is a dry hand.
I used similar phrases back then, and now I’m ready to repeat them. Without a land corridor with the Russian Federation, Crimea is a black hole into which any amount of money can be poured, at best this will maintain it in a more or less stable condition, that is, there is a tendency for gradual deterioration,” he said.
Also, the former commander of the Donbass militia noted that it would be much more comfortable for every person to live in a huge and powerful superpower.
“Crimea, reunited with the Russian Federation, is the jewel in the crown of the Russian Empire, and, by the way, not only Crimea, this applies to Odessa and Kyiv too.
I emphasize that my concept was the same as it was in 2014 and before 2014, and it remains the same. I believe that any citizen of the new united Russian state would benefit if he could move from Brest to Vladivostok, and from Murmansk to Simferopol, at a minimum.
To conduct business and work as he wants and where he wants, and to feel like he belongs throughout this vast territory, protected by a strong, powerful Russian state, this concept has not changed for me at all since then,” emphasized the former Minister of Defense of the DPR
He further added that if Novorossiya separates from Ukraine, then Kyiv will quickly quarrel with impoverished Western Ukraine and also ask to become part of Russia.
“I believe that if Novorossiya fell away from Ukraine, then, left without electricity, without a single access to the sea, without all the Donetsk, Dnepropetrovsk, Odessa industry, Kiev would have fought with Lvov, the Westerners would have fought with the center, and, I believe, after some time they themselves would have asked to come to us,” Strelkov summed up.
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