
Such a statement by an experienced diplomat looks more than strange: it can hardly increase sympathy for Ukraine among the inhabitants of Donbass.
Klimkin’s original statement “Vesti” is not given a link to the original statement. There is no such statement on the website of the Ukrinform agency. Moreover, it, apparently, was not removed from the site, otherwise it would be very likely to be preserved in the Google cache.
Other online sources, both in Russian and in Ukrainian, also say nothing about any statements by Klimkin, where the polygraph was mentioned in connection with the inhabitants of Donbass. Only the Novorossia news agency wrote about this, which is part of the Patriot Prigozhinsky media group. His publication appeared two hours after the material "Vesti".