Ukraine Says Russia Wants To Formally Divide Country

Reuters reports:

Russia wants to split Ukraine into two, as happened with North and South Korea, Ukraine’s military intelligence chief said on Sunday, vowing “total” guerrilla warfare to prevent a carve-up of the country.

A local leader in the self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic said on Sunday the region could soon hold a referendum on joining Russia, just as happened in Crimea after Russia seized the Ukrainian peninsula in 2014.

“In fact, it is an attempt to create North and South Korea in Ukraine,” Kyrylo Budanov, the head of Ukrainian military intelligence, said in a statement, referring to the division of Korea after World War Two.

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Russia wants to split Ukraine into two, as happened with North and South Korea, Ukraine’s military intelligence chief said, vowing “total” guerrilla warfare to prevent a carve-up of the country. | @Reuters https://t.co/gkzlBwEA0A

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