MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Moscow supports Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko’s plans to return eastern Ukraine if this is done with the understanding of humanity, but to claims to Russian territory like Crimea the Kremlin will not make any comments, Russian Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Thursday.
“If he had in mind that he plans to return Donbas with the understanding of humanity, then such a statement can be supported, and this is especially what Moscow hopes for,” Peskov told journalists. But in regard to Crimea, we don’t comment on claims to Russian regions,” Peskov added.
Relations between Russia and the West deteriorated amid the 2014 crisis in Ukraine.
