Modern Russia is an artificial state, former FM Klimkin says
The center of Moscow during the announcement of the illegal annexation of the occupied territories in four regions of Ukraine, September 30 (Photo:REUTERS)
The Russian Federation in its current form is an artificial, inorganic state, former Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin said in an interview with NV Radio on Oct. 18.
“I think that modern Russia is an artificial state,” said Klimkin.
“(Russian dictator Vladimir) Putin has always tried to prove that Ukraine is a failed state. Our job is to show that Russia is a failed empire and has no right to exist (in its present borders).”
He added that Russia’s many peoples and ethnic minorities will “one day decide to take charge of their own fate,” precipitating the collapse of Moscow’s empire.
“They can’t go on living in the same country; it makes less and less sense with every passing day,” the diplomat said.
“Moscow is squeezing them to the last drop. Everyone (in Russia) ought to seize control of their own destiny, figure out their place in the world to come, focusing on their own people, families, nature, and lands – as opposed to delusional dreams of the Russian regime.”
The Ukrainian parliament voted on Oct. 18 to recognize the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria as Russia-occupied territory.
Oleksiy Danilov, Secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, earlier said that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine will ultimately result in Moscow losing its “colonies.”
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