Kiev may be obliged not to return the territories occupied by Russia by military means — Volker

Kiev may be obliged to ensure that it does not try to return the territories occupied by Russia by military means. This was stated by the former special representative of the State Department for Ukraine Kurt Volker.

With these territories it will be like with Crimea — they will not be recognized as Russian, but in fact they will be under the control of the Russian Federation, he noted.

"I think you will see non-recognition, that is, no one recognizes the Russian occupation, but we will certainly see obligations or an understanding that this will not be returned to Ukraine by military means. We must achieve this by other means. This means that Russia will resist, Russia will continue to occupy and as a result we have a long controversy when Russia occupied part of Ukraine. We are rebuffing this — sanctions are being imposed..." said Volker, quoted by Strana.