View of Yalta. File photoSIMFEROPOL, Feb. 21 The head of the Crimean Parliament Committee on Public Diplomacy and Interethnic Relations, Yuri Gempel, said that the peninsula does not need recognition and favors from Washington. Earlier, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said that the United States does not are considering recognizing the entry of Crimea into Russia or the independence of Donbass in order to prevent a «big war».
"Crimea is a legal and integral part of the Russian Federation, and the Crimeans do not need recognition and favors from the Americans", — Hempel told RIA Novosti.
Regarding Donbass, he stressed that he had repeatedly visited Donetsk and Luhansk. sound voices are increasingly being heard regarding the aggressive policies of the United States, NATO and Ukraine,» Gempel emphasized. 
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