The stubbornness of Kiev resulted in heavy casualties among civilians and humanitarian catastrophe in the Donbas, the Prime Minister of the self-proclaimed people's Republic of Lugansk Gennady Tsepkalo. Tsepkalo emphasizes that If the persons who seized a year earlier, the government in Kiev, listened to the protesters in the Donbas even then, at the present time Ukraine would have remained United and maybe even unitary. "If in Kiev and in truth tried it, would like us to hear, rivers of blood would have been spilt and, in truth, would be to present a holistic Ukraine ", - he said