DPR to Lay Claims Over Whole Donetsk Region's Territory: Deputy PM / Sputnik International
The Donetsk People's Republic should be
within the borders of the former Donetsk Region, DPR deputy prime
minister said, pointing out that the issue should be addressed "at the
negotiating table, without any weapons in hands."
DONETSK,
November 23 (Sputnik) — The self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic
(DPR) is going to lay territorial claims over the entire territory
of Ukraine's Donetsk Region, should the talks with Kiev occur, DPR Deputy Prime Minister Denis Pushilin said Sunday.
"We will insist on a full territorial integrity of the republic. It
is within the borders of the former Donetsk Region," Pushilin told
reporters, pointing out that the issue should be addressed "at the
negotiating table, without any weapons in hands."
"Some people do not believe now that we will bring the whole
territory of the region under control. But many people also did not
believe that the republic would appear, that we would hold the
referendum and elections,
that we would withstand the onslaught of the [Ukrainian] army,"
Pushilin said, answering the question whether Kiev would agree to hand
over the whole territory of Donbas to the self-proclaimed republic.
