Ukrainians and Russians are one ethnic whole, but avoiding war between countries was unrealistic.

This opinion was expressed by the famous Russian director, scriptwriter and public figure Andrei Konchalovsky in his blog on "The Russian Newspaper".

Unleashed by the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin slaughter in the Donbass he called "a tragic error" and "catastrophe of an ethnic group".

"For how long have we quarreled with Ukraine?. But in another way it is impossible. What is happening in Ukraine today is the catastrophe of an entire ethnic group. Tragic confusion. This is a terrible sacrifice that the Ukrainian people now bring their ethnic integrity. This pendulum must go to the limit, and then roll back. We are one ethnic whole, with some cultural differences, "- said Konchalovsky.

At the same time, he acknowledged Russia's guilt in what was happening, but stressed that "the main thing is in the other".

"There is always a share of Russian guilt. The main thing is not this, but the fact that the illusion of a connection with Western Europe is given to someone easier, but to someone more difficult. But the singularity and the difference of the Slavs from the Latins are great, "said the cult director.

"The Poles are Slavs, but they are Latins. Russian with a Pole is more difficult than with a Tatar. Orthodoxy has never been an enemy with real Islam, and with Catholicism constant friction and war.

Between the West and the East still there is an "Iron Curtain" - between Orthodoxy and the Latins, between the Greeks and the Italians, "he added..

Konchalovsky also called Gogol "the great Russian writer", which he became, "being a Ukrainian".

"But, of course, he and the great Ukrainian. I finish the thought this way: except compassion for the Ukrainians, today I do not feel anything "- summed up the scriptwriter.

As reported by the "Observer", earlier Konchalovsky declared that Ukraine is not Europe.

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