“These are not people lost, but the state lost, and then people lost!” - Zakharova emphasized.
She said that "tanks sent from Kiev to" search "for people will not find them."
“Guarantee the residents their rights, and they will find themselves,” the diplomat said.
Zakharova noted that “the Kiev authorities should look for the causes of all ills in their ranks.”
“Mayors, governors, politicians of all stripes had residence permits and citizenship of other countries, making decisions in their favor and under their dictation. And now the authorities are surprised that the residents of Donbass, cut off from the rest of Ukraine by financial and social blockade, deprived of all rights, including voting in the popular elections, wanted to obtain citizenship of another state, ”the representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs wrote.
Earlier Zelensky announced his intention to fight for the "lost" residents of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics.