Chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people, People's Deputy Refat Chubarov believes that Russian President Vladimir Putin after the events in the Crimea at some point realized that his actions remain unpunished and was going to capture the cities of the south-eastern part of Ukraine.

This opinion Chubarov expressed in an interview with "Apostrophe".

"One team seized the administrative building - there is no resistance, the Ukrainian troops do not interfere, law enforcement officers are silent, the world is shocked, but is silent. Further - the capture of aircraft, then - the transfer of troops landing ships, the encirclement of Ukrainian military garrisons, the closure of the isthmus with mainland Ukraine. Putin at some point for himself concluded that he is allowed to, "- he said.

In the opinion of the Mejlis leader, this state of affairs became the source of the war in the Donbas. He expressed confidence that the "A" plan of Putin was to seize the territory of Ukraine "starting from Kharkov, and throughout the south to Odessa - and so he would close with Tiraspol". Therefore, in Odessa and Kharkov, there were armed confrontations in 2014, as well as attempts to destabilize the situation in the Zaporizhzhya and Kherson regions, and seizures of Donetsk and Lugansk.