The newly-elected Russian MP Aleksandr Boroday has once again publicly admitted that it is the Russian forces that oppose the Ukrainian army in the more than seven-year-long war in the east of Ukraine. It’s not the first confession of this kind made by this ex-leader of the “Donetsk People’s Republic,” a Russian-controlled statelet in Ukraine’s east. Yet this time he made it while being a sitting legislator voted in from the list of the Russian ruling party, United Russia.
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