The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has said that it is not planning to attach particular significance to statements made by Anton Bredikhin, the secretary of the Rostov regional branch of the Russian Social-Conservative Union of the United Russia Party, the coordinator of the Eurasian Union of Donbas movement, regarding the resettlement of seven million Ukrainians to Siberia to resolve the demographic problem.
“We would not like to attach particular significance to statements
made by individual Bredikhin, but in general we believe that Ukrainian
people are rather strong and wise not to become a demographic material
to resolve the demographic problems of Russia in Siberia,” the director
of the information policy department of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry,
Oleh Voloshyn, said in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine, while
commenting on a statement by Bredikhin.
Earlier, at a roundtable meeting entitled “Eurasian Union: A Myth or
Reality?” Bredikhin said that after Ukraine’s possible accession to the
Customs Union it will be necessary to resettle seven million Ukrainians
to Siberia “to create a demographic border against the influx of
Chinese.”
