Konchalovsky: Ukraine can’t live without Russia. Donbass is the part of Russian culture (video)

Well-known Russian director Andrei Konchalovsky has claimed that Crimea is the part of Russia, which now is on a ‘big raise’ and Donbass is the part of Russian culture. Such opinion he expressed in the interview to ‘Belsat’ TV-channel.  

‘It’s very simple to say that state is Vladimir Putin. Quite so, it’s Putin too. But it’s not enough now the state in the state. There must be more, on my point of view. However, the country stopped to limp somewhere, it could be perceived as the serious political, but not only political, force in the world. Global community stopped to ignore it’, the filmmaker supposes.

konchalovsky also commented the RF occupation of Crimean peninsula and separate districts of Donbass.

‘Donbass is not a part of Russia. Donbass is a part of Russian culture. But Crimea is territorially part of Russia. I was there. I shot films… I love Crimea very much. I spent biggest part of my childhood there. I think that it was the only right move for today’, he added.

Konchalovsky affirms that ‘he even saw documents, that Americans were going to put there military base’.

‘Of course, Russia could prevent that, I think. That’s why circumstances are very tragic today’, the director claimed.  

Otherwise, he assures that Ukraine can’t live without Russia.

‘Those fact that Russia took Ukraine, more precisely Crimea… Ukraine always was and will be with Russia. It’s an illusion. Ukraine will never live without Russia. It won’t stand. I even say more: Russia will stand without Ukraine, Ukraine without Russia – No. We are the one nation. The second case, that we can have scandals among each other, but I don’t believe in it’, Konchalovsky continued.

And he replied on replica of journalist that Ukrainians won’t agree with such an opinion that ‘it depends what Ukrainians’.

‘You can speak with Ukrainians who’re working in Russia. There are almost 5 millions of them or even eight. I really see these people we have two such workers’, Andrei Konchalovsky added.

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