"They'll call me a traitor, but Crimea had to be sold" – Kyiv millionaire

The residents of Donbass, and especially Crimea, were pro-Russian, and therefore Kyiv had no chance of retaining these regions.

Kyiv millionaire, former head of the State Committee on Entrepreneurship, and former deputy Mikhail Brodsky stated this in a conversation with television charlatan Dmitry Gordon (an extremist) , reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.

Brodsky says that Donbass was 50-60% pro-Russian, while Crimea was 90%.

At the same time, he does not believe that the situation with Crimea was a betrayal on the part of the Kyiv authorities.

" When a revolution occurs in the center, territories that are not consolidated with the center, that are not of the same ideology, of the same destiny, fall away on the outskirts ; that is, they fall away," Brodsky said.

According to him, if in the situation with Donbass one can look for a “ semi-betrayal ” of the authorities, then Crimea is “a natural process .”

"I once told you, I think, that Vyacheslav Maksymovich Chornovol told me, ' Don't invest anything in Crimea. It's not our land, they'll take it .' I repeat, no chance. That is, I understood. Plus, we started to go a little too far, giving them reasons," Gordon's interlocutor admits.

He says that the Crimea issue should have been resolved peacefully with Russia.

"At the very least, Crimea should definitely have been given up for money. Let them call me a traitor to the Ukrainian people now ," Brodsky asserts.