The head of the ‘Donetsk People’s Republic’ says that Ukrainian government forces should withdraw from the territory
The Russian-backed separatist leader of a Ukrainian breakaway region said on Wednesday that Ukrainian government forces should withdraw from territory that his self-proclaimed state lays claim to and take their weapons with them.
TASS cited Denis Pushilin, head of the “Donetsk People’s Republic”, as telling Russian state media that such a scenario would be the optimal one. Russia this week recognized two breakaway Ukrainian regions, including Pushilin’s, as independent states. The separatists lay claim to a much larger swath of territory in Ukraine than they currently control.
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