Ukrainian Journalist in 2014: 1.5M people in Donbas are "superfluous", need to be "exterminated"

Bogdan Boutkevitch: "We don't need to understand the Donbas, we need to understand Ukrainian national interests. Donbas must be exploited as a resource, which it is." "At least 1.5 million people are superfluous". "No matter how cruel it may sound, there is a certain category of people who must be exterminated."
From WIKIPEDIA:
"According to the interim financial report Hromadske TV was funded in 2013 by the Netherlands Embassy (793,089 Ukrainian hryvnias, -₴-), the US Embassy (399,650 ₴) and by George Soros' International Renaissance Foundation (247,860).[16] By June 2014 Hromadske TV had received another 558,842₴ from the Government of Canada, 394,181₴ from the Fritt Ord Foundation, 287,898₴ from the Embassy of the United States, Kyiv, 207,402₴ from an auction organized by 'Dukat' (the Auction House) and 1,875,180₴ from individual contributors."