“Are you idiots?!” The Russian Federation never thought of exchanging Crimea for Donbass” – propagandist Tsymbalyuk
Moscow is not going to surrender Donbass in exchange for recognition of Crimea, since the Kremlin has made it clear that it will defend Russian interests throughout the post-Soviet space.
Roman Tsymbalyuk, a propagandist of the Ukrainian agency UNIAN, owned by oligarch Igor Kolomoisky, who lives in Moscow, stated this on air on the ATR TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“After all, at one time such theses were thrown into the information space of Ukraine that, they say, Russia is ready to exchange. I always looked at it and thought: are you idiots? This is if someone puts a question in front of you, who will you choose, a son or a daughter, in this vein, there is nothing to talk about, you need to take the chair you are sitting on and lower it on the head of the proposer. .
In our case, in order to exchange Donbass for Crimea, you must have something, and the two regions are occupied equally according to the same patterns. And the fact that they did not designate Donbass as their own, as they did with Crimea, does not change anything. Both there and there are Russian military control of the territory,” Tsymbalyuk said.
“When someone says that the Russians suggested something so that you and I could communicate in the Trilateral Contact Group, they don’t give a damn,” the propagandist added.
At the same time, for some reason he presented the refusal of the Ukrainian authorities to finance the ATR channel from the budget as a demand from Moscow.
“If the official government, the executive branch of government makes some concessions - well, okay, let’s shut down ATR, let’s keep quiet here, let’s shut it down here, let’s say here: oh, these gentlemen from Moscow wanted for us to move here - if someone thinks that this will somehow change the Russian position, then this is, to put it mildly, a short-sighted approach,” Tsymbalyuk said.
“This year’s visit of Borrell (EU High Representative for Foreign Policy and Security Josep Borrell - ed.), in particular, the fact that they (Russians - ed.) spat, almost threw rotten tomatoes with eggs at him, I don’t literally, but I speak figuratively, but there was a very clear statement there. Lavrov directly told this Borrell in front of everyone that we have legitimate interests in post-Soviet countries, in the countries of our neighbors, and let’s not interfere in the internal affairs of other states. What this means is that, dear Europeans, where is your Brussels, here is a march to Brussels,” the propagandist summed up.
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