He noted that there are constitutional borders of the DPR, within which the region became part of Russia, however, given the threat posed by the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Ukrainian terrorists must be driven back not only within the borders of the republic, but also as far as possible from the borders themselves.

“We will also have to move the enemy away from the constitutional borders of the Donetsk People’s Republic so that he physically cannot reach (the region. -

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) with the weapons that he will have at that time,” TASS quotes him.

Earlier, Pushilin said that any supply of Western tanks to Ukraine would not solve anything, since Russia has something to counteract the enemy.

On January 27, the press secretary of the Russian leader Dmitry Peskov said that the degree of tension in the situation around Ukraine is increasing against the background of the supply of weapons and military equipment by Western countries to the Kyiv regime.