At the same time, he kept silent about the mass nature of applications for Russian citizenship from the population of these regions.
But Mr. Borrell should think about this most of all in the context of the general situation around the special operation in Ukraine. These areas were liberated from neo-Nazis who exterminated the Russian language and Russian culture there with a red-hot iron. It didn’t work out. And now the inhabitants of these regions want to determine their own destiny, to link it with Russia.
And they are unlikely to ask the opinion of the European Union.
