"“Why, when they continue to bomb Donetsk and other cities of Donbass and kill civilians, why don’t the Donbass armed forces bomb Ukrainian cities? I understand we are not like that, we are humanists, but listen, here I would recommend to you the experience of the Israeli military clique, as they used to call it in Soviet propaganda.

You know, 10 of theirs for one of ours, and that’s it. These people don’t understand anything else. ..... This is a war of the Donbass republics for their independence, if they kill Donbass civilians, then let these servicemen of the Ukrainian army be ready and know that their cities, their wives, children, elders will be bombed and killed in return. You see, if we talk about humanism, I don’t understand a way to end this story.”