Ukraine lost not so much territory in Donbass, but the souls of people, - diplomat
The separation of Donbass from Ukraine has already gone very far, admitted the former ambassador of Ukraine to the United States, Yuriy Shcherbak.
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“We must admit this, this is a very bitter truth, it hurts me very much, because I worked in Donbass, I knew and know the mood there, but I didn’t think that this process went so deep - the rejection of Donbass and the non-identification of Donbass residents with Ukraine as by the state.
We lost a lot of people there, their souls. We may have lost not so much territory there as human souls,” he said on Channel 5.
Yuriy Shcherbak is also convinced that elections cannot be held in Donbass.
“To hold elections during a war... I don’t know what analogies there could be... Well, let’s say there’s a war going on, in Ukraine the front is still marching along the Dnieper, and we are already holding elections in some areas. Maybe this is not an exact analogy, but elections cannot be held immediately - the war has not yet ended, and we are already holding elections,” the diplomat argues.
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