Ex-Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev has again blamed the ongoing turmoil in Ukraine on the hasty and thoughtless breakup of the USSR. He noted that a peaceful outcome could only be reached through resumed dialogue between Russia and the US.

The former Soviet leader expressed these opinions in the afterword to his latest book of memoirs called “After the Kremlin” – soon to be released. The afterword was published before the book by the Novaya Gazeta newspaper.