Kuchma - about Donbass: Giving easy - hard return

For eastern Ukraine need to combat by all means, said the former president.

The representative of Ukraine in the tripartite contact group, the second President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma is convinced that for the Ukrainian Donbass need to fight and the political and economic means.

"Giving is easy - hard to return. Let's look at the post-Soviet experience in the Nagorno-Karabakh, Transnistria, Abkhazia, South Ossetia," - said Kuchma, commenting on the opinion that it is advisable from the Donbass would be fenced off.

"For the Ukrainian Donbass need to combat by all means, and, above all, political, diplomatic and economic", - Kuchma expressed his conviction.

The conflict in the east of Ukraine began in April 2014 and is still ongoing. During this time, the Donbas, according to official UN data, killing more than 6800 people.

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