According to calculations, this will happen in 2018. This opinion was voiced on Wednesday evening, August 9, on the air of one of the Ukrainian TV channels by Deputy Minister for Temporary Occupied Territories of Ukraine Yuri Grymchak.

He also noted that this process has postponed the blockade of the so-called republics.

At the same time, the ministry expects in November this year an aggravation of the conflict in the Donbass with Russian troops. The last such fight for Ukraine will be. Russia will try to activate all that it has to destabilize the situation in Ukraine in order not to leave the Donbas, - said the Deputy Minister of the Ministry of the Interior.

Recall, Grymchak previously predicted that after the de-occupation of the Donbass, the territory of the so-called republics will leave about one hundred thousand people involved in terrorism. In his opinion, some of them will leave for Russia.

As reported URA-Inform, Zakharchenko decided to abandon the name "Little Russia".