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Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin believes Moscow has abandoned the idea of electing pro-Russian authorities in Ukraine, seeking its partition.

“Russia’s goal is no longer the creation of pro-Russian reality in Ukraine. If there are still intelligent people in Russia, and they are there, they have given up hope for that and are now clearly seeking fragmentation of Ukraine,” he said at a meeting of the Euro-Atlantic forum in Kyiv on September 17, according to Europeiska Pravda.

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