The leader of the separatists: “Moscow could defend its citizens in the Donbass”

The relative quiet along the “contact line” that divides Ukraine from the self-proclaimed People’s Republics of Donetsk and Lugansk in Donbass could be the “calm before the storm”. An invasion? Yes, but from Ukraine. This is the one who yesterday, in a rare meeting with some local and foreign media, including Repubblica, supported the forty-year-old separatist leader Denis Pushilin.