The plan by Russian President Vladimir Putin to create the so-called "Novorossia" in the Ukrainian territory has failed, according to chess grandmaster, writer and political activist Garry Kasparov.
The self-styled Russia-supported authorities of the self-proclaimed "Donetsk People's Republic" ("DPR") and "Luhansk People's Republic" ("LPR") consider the emergence of "Novorossia" an "inevitable process."
A video has been uploaded on social networks showing one of the militant commanders in the so-called “Luhansk People’s Republic” appealing to the self-proclaimed “leader” of the neighboring “Donetsk People’s Republic” (DPR) terrorist organization, Alexander Zakharchenko, to "revive ‘Novorossiya’."