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Volodymyr Lytvyn has said that there are no unneeded territories in Ukraine that could be given away to someone else. Verkhovna Rada Chairman Volodymyr Lytvyn has said that there are no unneeded territories in Ukraine that could be given away to someone else.

"Pay attention that some people are now beginning to make statements that it's necessary to give away a certain part of our territory to someone else. We should say that there are no unneeded territories in Ukraine," he said at a gathering to mark the 15th anniversary of the foundation of the People's Party in Kyiv on Monday.

"And those who make such calls for the splitting of the country should at least be proposed to look for another country [to live in]," Lytvyn said.

Earlier, Regions Party MP Yuriy Boldyrev said in his speech at the embassy soirees of the Russian ambassador to Ukraine dedicated to the 65th anniversary of the Nuremberg trials in Kyiv that "the Soviet Union was created by three bloody dictators - Lenin, Stalin, and Khrushchev" and suggested that "Ukraine will become a stable country after it gets rid of the west or the east."

"I want it to get rid of Halychyna. If we remove Halychyna from my country and leave the real Ukraine - with the Donbas and Crimea, this will be the first Russia. And then there will be the Russian Federation," he added.