Russia will soon come to a point when she wants to "turn off" the conflict in the Donbass.

This in an interview with Apostrof was told by Senior Vice President of the Center for European Policy Analysis and editor of the authoritative British magazine The Economist, Edward Lucas.

"There may be something like a deal when they say:" We stop fighting, and you accept it ". Or they will leave the Donbass and say: "We leave the Crimea, and you take back these two districts," he supposes..

In his opinion, for Russia it is extremely expensive to maintain the occupied territories of the Donbass and especially does not bring anything to it.

"Russia has not succeeded in destabilizing Ukraine sufficiently to make it worth it. I suppose that in the next couple of years the Russians will offer Ukraine some kind of a deal. And then, of course, the question will be whether you will accept it, "Lucas stressed..

Recall, earlier in the Kremlin, talked about the possibility of a deal between Russia and Trump in the Crimea in exchange for sanctions.

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