Donbass is in distress. Blood is flowing in Donbass. Our cities, towns and infrastructure are being destroyed.

But the most terrible thing is that people are suffering and dying.

Donbass needs peace. However, Kyiv is saying that it will never sit down at the negotiating table with terrorists.

Does that mean that the war will last forever?

People do not need a process. People need a result. People need peace!

They are asking, they are demanding – please give us peace.

I strongly believe that we must find a peaceful solution.

And we will find it only at the negotiating table.

Not at the wheel of armoured vehicles, or by machine guns and artillery.

Akhmetov’s System Capital Management released the video above of the businessman reading his statement on June 19.