Whatever plans for the “deportation of the people of Donbass” Kiev decision-makers are nurturing, this is nothing more than their morbid fantasy, a foreman of the electric locomotive drivers of the Komsomolets Donbassa mine, a Kirovskoye resident, Alexander Demenkov, stated.

“Over the past five years, the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics not only defended their independence by force of arms, managed to solve a number of complex state building challenges, but also proved their adherence to integration with the Russian Federation.

This is our historical choice, the embodiment of which can be foiled neither by Ukrainian tanks, nor the insidiousness of the SBU, nor the “horror stories” from the NSDC. The latter only strengthen the confidence that we made the right choice in 2014. They also emphasize the hypocrisy of the Ukrainian authorities, headed by Zelensky, who, having come to power under the slogans of peace, ran into the same trap as his predecessor did. No-one has the power to bring Donbass to its knees, to say nothing of intimidating it.

Kiev paper scrappers can chase rainbows till the cows come home, but their political dreams to get rid of us and conquer our homeland are not destined to come true. Donbass made its choice and will never return to Ukraine,” Alexander Demenkov said.