The Kremlin has said the words of Russian President Vladimir Putin about “grave consequences for Ukraine’s statehood as such” if Kyiv makes any attempt to liberate Donbas during the FIFA World Cup should be taken “unequivocally.”
“You know, President Putin is extremely clear about what he thinks and speaks his mind, so everything here has been said unequivocally. The question [of the Russian writer fighting against Ukraine in Donbas] Zakhar Prilepin was, what would happen if Ukraine took advantage of the World Cup and decided to go on an offensive in Donbas, once again to unleash a war, bloody and fratricidal. President Putin answered very unequivocally,” Russian President’s Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov told journalists, responding to a UNIAN correspondent’s request to clarify Putin’s words about “grave consequences for Ukraine’s statehood.”
