This is stated in a message on the website of McCain.

"Putin hopes that the more his army and militants kill Ukrainians, the more Ukrainian territory they will be able to capture," said John McCain.

Also, the head of the Senate Committee stressed that Vladimir Putin's ambitions to restore the Russian Empire had advanced one more step. First of all, this happened in the time when Russian separatists in the Donetsk region of Ukraine proclaimed an independent state with the name of the tsarist era "Little Russia".

In addition, anti-Russian sanctions could not fundamentally change Russia's plans in Ukraine.

In this regard, the United States and the European Union should develop a strategy to increase the diplomatic, economic and military consequences from which Russia must comply with the Minsk agreements.

Recall, as previously reported, "URA-Inform," the head of the so-called "Donetsk People's Republic" Alexander Zakharchenko said the establishment of the state "Little Russia". At the same time he announced the introduction of a state of emergency for a period of three years.