If Ukraine were to give up regions of Russian origin, only half of the country would remain

Aleksey Pushkov, senator and chairman of the Russian Federation Council’s commission for information and cooperation with the media, told on TVC channel that the stories of forcible imposition of the Russian language in Ukraine are lies, that the majority of the population has spoken Russian for centuries, and reminded the followers of Ukrainian ethno-linguistic purity that if Kiev were to renounce the regions of Russian origin, which are predominantly Russian-speaking, only half of the country would remain, with no port or access to the sea.