Simonenko has called on Kiev to stop its “anti-terrorist operation,” saying it has now turned into a “terrorist operation against its own people.”
“You declared seven million people living in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions as ‘terrorists.’ They went out yesterday [to vote in the referendum], stood in lines since 6 a.m. to vote against Kiev rule, against this regime, against your policy,” he said.
According to Simonenko, the recent events in the cities of Odessa and Mariupol show that Kiev is trying to impose a“nationalist-fascist regime.”
