Russia 'eyes more Ukraine territory'
PR dla Zagranicy
Peter Gentle
25.08.2014 18:00
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‘Putin wants to take away another piece of Ukraine’s territory’ - Michał Kubicki speaks to presidential advisor Roman Kuźniar on Russia and Ukraine.
President Komorowski's foreign policy advisor says Russia wants another piece of Ukraine: Donbass, a major industrial city that has become a stronghold of pro-Russian separatists.
A military member of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic shows a V for victiry sign on a bus before it heads towards the front line in downtown of Donetsk, Ukraine, 24 August 2014. In eastern Ukraine, the separatists responded to the events in Kiev by publicly parading some 50 captured government soldiers through the streets of the city of Donetsk, which is in rebel hands and has been under heavy attack by government forces: photo - EPA/SERGEI ILNITSKY
“Putin wants to take away another piece of Ukraine’s territory – Donbas,” Roman Kuźniar tells Polish Radio English Section's Michal Kubicki.
President Bronislaw Komorowski's advisor says that Moscow’s goal is to have Ukraine in the Russian sphere of influence and prevent that country from joining the European Union.
In Kuzniar’s view, it is very important “to what extent Germans are ready to acknowledge that the independence of Ukraine is more important than good relations with Russia, because [Germany’s] policy of balancing between Ukraine and Russia is not promising”.