EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell. Archival photo MOSCOW, 6 Jan. Former Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavel Klimkin urged on Facebook to send EU head of diplomacy Josep Borrell to the border with Russian Crimea. Borrell is on a working visit to Ukraine from 4 to 6 January, during which he visited the part of Donbass controlled by Kiev. < p> & # 34; I would not send Borrel to Donbass, but to the line of contact with the occupied Crimea. This would be a development for the Crimean platform — precisely a political development. And it would show the EU's dedication to restraining Russia even more, «Klimkin said.
He noted the importance of the visit of the EU representative to Donbass for Kiev, but added that such trips» are becoming routine. » now, «the Ukrainian politician concluded. Russian officials have repeatedly invited Western representatives to visit Crimea. For example, the head of the region, Sergei Aksenov, invited Bulgarian President Rumen Radev to the peninsula, and the head of the Republican Parliament's Committee on People's Diplomacy and Interethnic Relations, Yuri Gempel, suggested that German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and the British royal family pay a visit to the Russian region. The Crimean Platform summit was held in Kiev August 23 at the initiative of Ukraine. It discussed the issue of regaining control of the peninsula. More than 40 countries and international organizations took part in the event. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called this forum a sabbath, at which «the West will continue to nurture neo-Nazi, racist sentiments of the modern Ukrainian government.» The Kremlin described the summit as an anti-Russian and extremely unfriendly event.