Putin has lost Ukraine, US diplomat says
12.10.2018, 18:48
"They [Russian leaders] are driving the Ukrainian people away from their historic relationship with Russia," Kurt Volker, the US state department's special envoy on Ukraine, told press in Brussels on Thursday (11 October).
"They [Russian leaders] are driving the Ukrainian people away from their historic relationship with Russia," Kurt Volker, the US state department's special envoy on Ukraine, told press in Brussels on Thursday (11 October).
Russia's actions were putting the 1.5m mostly Russian-speaking Ukrainians in the conflict zone through a "horrific experience", Volker noted.
Thursday's split of the Ukrainian orthodox church from the Russian one underlined Volker's claim that Putin had lost Ukraine in terms of hearts and minds.
"This [Ukrainian autocephaly] is a great victory of the God-loving Ukrainian people over the Moscow demons," Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko said.
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