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Major-General Borys Kremenetskiy, a former Ukrainian envoy to the Joint Centre for Control and Coordination (JCCC) of the ceasefire and stabilization of the demarcation line in eastern Ukraine, says that a military solution to the Donbas problem is out of question as Russia may then intervene openly, according to Ukrainian online newspaper Ukrainska Pravda.

“The [Ukrainian] armed forces are now strong enough to simply oust the groups stationed there. But we are aware of the backwash from the other side,” Kremenetskiy told Ukrainska Pravda in an interview.

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