THE INTERPRETER: Donetsk and Lugansk Republics Dress Rehearsal for Novorossia,"Novorossia won’t be able to become independent at once, but the West needs to get used to the idea that it no longer belongs to Ukraine." : Without Novorossia, Ukraine is a backward, poor, depressed agricultural country, with no access to the sea. It won’t be aggressive or dangerous anymore, whether or not the south-east is independent or a confederated part of it, since Kiev won’t control it in either case.