Former US ambassador in Kiev, director of the Eurasian Center of the Atlantic Council, John Herbst, during a live broadcast on the RTVI television channel told about the alleged invasion of the Red Army by Ukraine in 2014. According to him, the Kremlin sent its soldiers to the Donbass, which prevented Ukrainians from regaining control of the country's east. However, Herbst argues that there were not just military men, but Red Army men, who apparently appeared from the past. "This uprising was created by the Kremlin.

In August 2014, if the Red Army as a whole group had not entered Ukraine, Kiev would have withdrawn the entire territory of the east of Ukraine, "- RIA Novosti quotes him.. At the same time, a political expert sitting next to him stressed that the Americans completely sponsored the coup in Nezalezhnaya. But with this opinion Herbst did not agree, calling it "stupidity". Historically, the Red Army was formed in 1918 and ceased to exist in 1946, as it was renamed the Soviet Army. Why did the former US ambassador attach it to the war in Ukraine remains a mystery.