Russian President Vladimir Putin said that it was necessary to “join the Donbass to Russia” earlier, Russian media write.
“As for 2014, of course, we are all smart in retroactively, but proceeding from what could be able to agree. And Lugansk, Donetsk, somehow, as part of the Minsk agreements, they will be able to reunite with Ukraine. We were sincerely going to this , but we did not feel the mood of people until the end of the mood, it was impossible to understand what was happening there, ”said Putin.