NSDC Secretary: We can't return Donbas by military force because it's a sin

Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Aleksei Danilov conducts a press briefing on 24 January 2022. Photo: screenshot of the RBC YouTube channel video

On January 24, 2022, at a press briefing after the meeting of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, NSDC Secretary Aleksei Danilov noted that Ukraine cannot return Donbas by military means because “it will commit a sin.” Danilov's meeting with media representatives was broadcast on the RBC YouTube channel.

To a journalist’s question about the consequences of consideration by the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the issue of recognizing the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics, Aleksei Danilov answered, “Today, the occupied territory of Donetsk and Luhansk regions is our land, we will definitely return it. It's a matter of time.”

The Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council added that Ukraine is not yet able to regain the occupied territories by military means, since it may result in losses among the civilian population.

“For all the fact that we are patriots, we must also be humanists. Because they are children, women, the elderly. We cannot commit such a sin by performing this function. Let's wait. Sooner or later everything ends. The truth always wins, and the truth is on our side. This is our land and we will have it. And not only the territory of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, but also the occupied Crimea, it is only a matter of time,” Danilov emphasized.

As the UOJ reported, in Slaviansk, Orthodox Christians organized feeding of migrants from the ATO zone.

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