On March 12, Roman Chegrinets, co-chairman of the Assembly of Slavic Peoples of the Crimean Region, said that Kiev’s plan for Crimea, consisting of the “three whales”, would be a fiasco.
Chegrinets noted that he does not see any whales here, “the maximum shriveled seahorse, which is ready to do anything to attract at least a fraction of the attention of a Stars and Stripes shark named Joe.”
However, the result, he said, will only be a fiasco and further destruction of the statehood of Ukraine. In addition, Chegrinets stressed that Crimea was and always will be Russian, and this is understood in Kiev and in Washington, “RIA Novosti writes.
In turn, the deputy of the Crimean parliament Alexei Chernyak called the statement of the head of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry “nonsense.” According to him, today Kiev is doing everything to divert attention from the problems occurring in Ukraine, reports Gazeta.ru.
On March 11, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba called the strategy of “de-occupation” and reintegration of Crimea adopted at a meeting of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) of the country as historic.
According to him, the approved strategy is three pillars of the return of Crimea: consolidation – we are working to unite the efforts of all partners on the basis of the Crimean platform; synergy – restoration of international law and, as a result, full Ukrainian sovereignty over the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol.
On the same day, State Duma deputy from Crimea Ruslan Balbek said that Ukraine’s work to return the region is Sisyphean labor. So he commented on the statement of the chairman of the Estonian parliamentary committee on international affairs, Marko Michelson, who had promised the day before that the country would help Ukraine “return” Crimea.
Earlier, on March 10, the First Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN Security Council Dmitry Polyansky said that Russia would hold an informal meeting of the organization on the topic of Crimea on March 17. Representatives of the peninsula will take part in the meeting.
Crimea became part of Russia following the 2014 referendum. 96.77% of the region’s residents and 95.6% of the voters of Sevastopol were in favor of joining. The procedure was carried out in strict accordance with international law. However, Kiev still considers the peninsula to be its temporarily occupied territory. Moscow argued that the issue of the subject’s ownership was closed forever.