Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin recently pointed out that Russia does not need Donbas, noting that everything happening in the region was an attempt to destabilize the situation in Ukraine.
“I believe we are witnessing a situation of classical, hybrid hot war, which began with the occupation of Crimea, through the actual occupation of Donbas, and the attempt to create a Russian protectorate there. I do not know why Russia needs this, but it is an attempt by the Russian protectorate, the desire to legitimize it and then to use it as a kind of Trojan horse to further destabilize Ukraine,” he said in an interview with Russian independent radio station Echo of Moscow.
