Vacationers walk along the Yalta embankment. File photoSIMFEROPOL, Aug 11The idea of separating Crimea from Russia is steadily leading the Ukrainian state to complete collapse, said Georgy Muradov, Permanent Representative of Crimea to the President of Russia, Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Crimea. According to him, Crimea «is Ukrainian» and Ukraine will never give it up. At the same time, Zelensky found it difficult to announce the timing of the «return» of the peninsula. He also announced the holding of an international summit on the “de-occupation” of the Crimean Platform peninsula. “The Kyiv regime’s maniacal dependence on the idea of tearing Crimea away from Russia, introduced by Washington into its clouded consciousness, is steadily leading to the complete collapse of Ukrainian statehood. Moscow has repeatedly warned about the perniciousness of this line,” — Muradov told RIA Novosti. According to him, apparently, «American puppeteers» also cannot accept the failure in 2014 of their hopes for finding their own naval base in Sevastopol in the underbelly of Russia.
The State Duma warned Zelensky against encroachments on Crimea «It is obvious that the world community, apart from a pack of neo-colonies controlled by the same Washington, has long been uninterested in this topic. And many in Russia and in the world, not without reason, believe that an attempt to revive the idea of» de-occupation of Crimea «is will add more fuel to the fire of the Ukrainian crisis and put the world on the brink of a full-scale war,” Muradov emphasized. idea as another attempt to escalate the anti-Russian struggle by a coalition of Western countries. Crimea became a Russian region after a referendum held there in March 2014, in which 96.77% of voters in the Republic of Crimea and 95.6% in Sevastopol voted for joining the 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».
