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In September, Beijing’s ambassador to Ukraine Du Wei urged the US not to interfere "in internal and external affairs" of Ukraine amid snowballing crisis over the sale of a controlling stake in Motor Sich, the world’s largest producers of airplane and helicopter engines.
"China has never irresponsibly expressed opinions regarding Ukraine's domestic and foreign policy, it never demanded that Ukraine choose between China and the US," the ambassador said. "The US should not brazenly interfere in Ukraine's internal and external affairs, as well as demand that Ukraine choose between China and the US."
2.6​ ​Three quarters of Donbas residents believe Ukraine fighting a civil war
A majority of people living in the occupied Donbas think Russia has nothing to do with the war in Ukraine​, a new poll found.
According to its results, 76% of people living in the occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts believe that Ukraine is experiencing a civil war, not fighting against Russian-backed militants.
The sociological survey was conducted by New Image Marketing Group in partnership with the Dzerkalo Tyzhnya newspaper and published on Nov. 9. However, the firm's website was hacked, so the results are currently only available on Dzerkalo Tyzhnya's site.
According to the survey, 86% of people from the occupied Donbas believe that the Kremlin didn't start the war, and roughly the same percentage believes that Russia's illegal annexation of Crimea in 2014 was intended to "legally defend Russian-speaking citizens alienated by Ukraine" at the time.
Asked who should be responsible for rebuilding war-torn Donbas, 64% of respondents said Ukraine must pay for it. However, Russia and the unrecognized, self-proclaimed statelets in Donbas must oversee this process, more than half of those interviewed said.
Despite this, 58% of people in occupied Donbas still consider themselves Ukrainians. Moreover, 42% of them would not consider giving up their Ukrainian passports, and 38% have visited Ukrainian territory controlled by Kyiv over the past year.
The rest, however, either have a Russian passport (7%) or a passport of one of the self-proclaimed republics (35%).
Only 19% of respondents want to leave the area: 11% would leave for Russia and 5% - for Ukrainian-government controlled territory. The rest would rather move to other countries.
One reason why so few residents of the occupied territories are considering moving to Ukrainian-controlled territory may be their beliefs about the economic situation there. Half of respondents indicated that they believe the Ukrainian economy has worsened over the last year. Another 41% think it hasn't changed in the past year.
9​ UKRAINE Country Report​ December 201 ​ ​www.intellinews.com