This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the Ukraine 24 TV channel.
According to Saakashvili, former CIA director David Petraeus agitated Kiev to attack Donetsk and even prepared a plan to seize the city.
“I remember there was a moment when they could take Donetsk.
I'm not saying this on my own - General Petraeus ... sent me a long SMS then, I was in the north of New York, on some kind of holiday.
He says: “A, B, C, D, D” - it is written down the points why now is a good time to go to Donetsk, ”the ex-president of Georgia said.
He added that Petraeus argued the need for an offensive by the fact that the security forces could cope with this task on their own.
Saakashvili claims that the ex-head of the CIA presented this plan at that time to the current president of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, but he did not react to this in any way.
The conflict in Donbass has been going on for seven years already.
More than 13 thousand people became victims of the confrontation.
Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov earlier on the air of the program “Moscow.
Kremlin.
Putin "said that the Russian side will continue to provide humanitarian assistance to Donbass.