Deputy Minister for the Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine said that the Russian Federation would try to use the Donbas in its own interests in order to divert attention from Crimea. The press service of the department reported about this.
“The logic of the need to unite the cases of the Donbas and Crimea was the basis for reformatting the structure of our Ministry. We moved away from regional directorates, or departments, as it was before, when there were separate directions in Crimea and separately in Donetsk and Luhansk. Now, when we talk about the occupied territories, we consider Crimea and the Donbas in a comprehensive manner. It is the combination of these two cases that gives us an advantage in the future in the direction of de-occupation of these territories”,- the message said.
Yaremenko noted that the safe reintegration of the Donbas will require colossal efforts and concentration of resources. The Russian Federation will try to use this in its own interests in order to divert attention from the issue of Crimea to legitimize the occupation of the Ukrainian peninsula.