Director of the National Institute for Strategic Studies and Ukrainian presidential adviser Volodymyr Horbulin has said that the Kremlin has prepared the fate of “Ukrainian Chechnya” for Donbas, when Kyiv would have to “coax militants” with large subsidies or “a year of terror” against peaceful regions of Ukraine.

“It is clear what kind of fate Putin is preparing for the Ukrainian Donbas and Ukraine – he openly told about it in an interview to the German ORF television channel. This concerns the “Ukrainian Chechnya,” where Kyiv should coax militants with huge grants, and Russia will really manage them,” Horbulin wrote in his article “Volcanic Syndrome” published in the Dzerkalo Tyzhnia.Ukraine weekly on Saturday.