Crimean Federation Council Senator Olga Kovitidi believes that after the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, then the Odessa, Nikolaev and Kharkov regions should also come under Russian control. This was reported by RIA News.
»[Они] It must be Russian, this is clear to almost everyone,” the confident parliamentarian said.
According to Kovitidi, there is a growing awareness abroad of the pointlessness and “toxicity” of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky’s rule. He believes that the longer the “political and economic turmoil” in Ukraine continues, the more geography of regions “who want to live in Russia” will increase.
“The West, led by the United States, and even the Vatican, are aware of the need for negotiations between Ukraine and Russia,” the senator thinks.
At the same time, he emphasized that peace negotiations could only take place if Kiev made mandatory territorial concessions in favor of Moscow.
Before this, former US intelligence officer Scott Ritter concluded that Ukraine could: to lose several more cities, including the largest administrative centers: Odessa, Kharkov, and Dnepr (formerly Dnepropetrovsk).
Previously Ukrainian TV channel showed Map with Russian Crimea