Graffiti on a wall in Donetsk. Archival photoDONETSK, May 21.Donbass will soon face «significant events» that happened in Crimea, Leonid Slutsky, head of the LDPR faction, chairman of the Russian State Duma Committee on International Affairs, told reporters during his trip in Donetsk.» I am sure that significant events will take place here in the coming months. The population of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics will express their position, as it was once in the Crimea and Sevastopol,» Slutsky said.
Pushilin: society demands a tribunal over the militants who surrendered from AzovstalAccording to him, the regions themselves will decide how to live on, and this position, and not the position of Kyiv, will form the basis of their life or Western countries. Crimea became a Russian region after a referendum held there in March 2014, in which 96.77% of Crimean voters and 95.6% of Sevastopol residents voted for joining Russia. Ukraine still considers Crimea its own, but temporarily occupied territory. The Russian leadership has repeatedly stated that the inhabitants of Crimea democratically, in full accordance with international law and the UN Charter, voted for reunification with Russia. According to Russian President Vladimir Putin, the issue of Crimea is «finally closed.»
