From Russia’s perspective, the conflicts it has itself instigated in the greater Black Sea region are strictly separate cases. Moscow regards the conflicts over Ukraine’s Crimea and Georgia’s Abkhazia and South Ossetia as settled and closed. By contrast, Russia seeks political settlements to the active conflict in Ukraine’s Donbas and the frozen one over Moldova’s Transnistria.
In this overall context, Dmitry Kozak will supervise Russia’s handling of the two remaining unresolved conflicts: those in the Donbas and Transnistria.