Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with mothers of Russia's servicemen participating in the military operation in Ukraine, ahead of Mother's Day at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence, outside Moscow, Russia. © Sputnik / Alexander Shcherbak
TASS: Russia-Donbass reunification was long overdue — Putin
"Now, it has become pretty obvious that this reunification should have happened earlier," the president said NOVO-OGARYOVO, November 25. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin admitted that now it is clear that the reunification of Russia and Donbass should have happened earlier.
"As far as 2014 is concerned, of course, in hindsight, we know everything now, but we proceeded from the assumption that it might be possible to come to terms, that Lugansk and Donetsk would be able to reunite with Ukraine somehow within the framework of the Minsk agreements. We were sincerely working towards this, but we didn’t fully feel the mood of the people, it was impossible to understand what was happening there," Putin said on Friday at a meeting with the mothers of servicemen participating in the special military operation.
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Update #1: Putin expresses regret over Donbass (RT)
Update #2: Putin claims Russia "sincerely" hoped for reunification of Donbas with Ukraine (Ukrayinska Pravda)
WNU Editor: This is not the first time that he is expressing this regret. I recall last year when the fighting in the Donbas started to increase and the Kremlin responded with a major mobilization of military forces near the border of Ukraine that Putin remarked he had made a mistake in 2014 on not annexing the Donbas at the same time that he did with Crimea.
2 comments:
If he had done it when most of the army and navy had defected to the Russian side in 2014 it could've saved literally 100k+ lives.
It would probably have gone much less smoothely though, in the donbass, than in Crimea, it seems to me. Crimea went very smoothely it seemed
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