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THE president of the self-declared Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) proposed a new state yesterday as a successor to “failed” Ukraine.
Alexander Zakharchenko said there should be a three-year transition to a new republic of “Malorossiya” (Little Russia) as a solution to the civil war sparked in eastern Ukraine by the 2014 coup in Kiev.
He said debate in Donetsk had “come to the conclusion that Ukraine has shown itself as a failed state.”
Faced with crises in every direction, Volodymr Zelensky is rewriting his country’s complex history by paying homage to the founding fathers of Ukrainian ultra-nationalism and courting their modern heirs, writes KENNY COYLE
Poland’s anger over Ukraine’s celebration of the Nazi collaborationist UPA reflects more than historical grievance, says KENNY COYLE
While 69 per cent of Ukrainians want negotiated peace, Western leaders are cynically prolonging the war for their own strategic and economic goals, to the immense detriment of Ukraine and Europe, write BOB ORAM and MAGGIE SIMPSON
