"Putin truly wanted to give the Donbass back to Ukraine [after 2015] That's because their electorate, with their special political rights [granted by the Minsk agreements] would have pushed all of Ukraine back into the Russian sphere within a decade. But Ukrainian patriotic society refused to let this cancerous tumor return. That is why Putin invaded in 2022. "
Dmytro Kuleba, foreign minister 2020-24.
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