EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell expressed concern about the possible integration of the Lugansk and Donetsk People’s Republics into the Russian Federation, EURACTIV reports.
“LDNR are drifting farther and farther away from Ukraine. They can de facto integrate into Russia,” Borrell said during a meeting of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Subcommittee on Security and Defense of the European Parliament in Strasbourg.
In addition, Borrell criticized reports of Russia’s impending “invasion” of Ukrainian territory, which are full of Western media. In his opinion, Moscow’s “massive attack” on Ukraine is currently impossible.
The Russian side resolutely denies all accusations of preparing an “attack” on Ukraine. Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov stressed that Moscow is moving troops exclusively on its territory and such reports are “empty and unfounded escalation of tension”.