Pigeons on the embankment in Yalta. Archival photoMOSCOW, June 7Italy, France and Germany do not support Vladimir Zelensky's demand to transfer control over Crimea to Kyiv, columnist Patrick Buchanan wrote in an article for the American Conservative magazine. The author of the publication noted that Rome, Paris and Berlin are in favor of an early peaceful settlement of the situation in Ukraine.
"None of them insists on what Vladimir Zelensky demands from time to time: the withdrawal of Russia from the territories it has owned since 2014", Buchanan noted.
The observer added that some countries of Eastern Europe support the Ukrainian leader in this matter. strike on CrimeaIn May, Zelensky, on the air of the Italian channel Rai 1, said that Ukraine would never recognize Crimea as part of Russia and would not agree to the autonomy of the DPR and LPR. Russia has been conducting a military special operation to denazify and demil Itarization of Ukraine. Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» According to the Ministry of Defense, the Russian army has already completed the main tasks of the first stage — it significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the department was called the liberation of Donbass.