SIMFEROPOL, Aug 20The head of the Crimean Parliament, Vladimir Konstantinov, compared the upcoming Ukrainian Crimean Platform summit on the «de-occupation» of the peninsula with a dead cat, adding that there is nothing constructive and promising in this undertaking. Earlier it was reported that the second international summit of the Crimean Platform will be held online 23 August. It will be attended by representatives of a number of countries and international organizations. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg also confirmed his participation. «The story of the notorious «Crimean Platform» resembles a dead cat: there is nothing creative and promising in it. What's the point of standing on this platform, from which the Crimean train left more than eight years ago? Maybe they all they still feel phantom pains, but if they returned from their illusions to reality, although for them such a sobering up of death is similar, they would be forced to admit that they missed their chances for the development of the Crimea, «Konstantinov told RIA Novosti. According to him, the Kyiv authorities had more than two decades to implant Crimea into the fabric of an independent Ukrainian state, to find a common language with the Crimeans.Yesterday, 06:25In Crimea, they responded to reports about the possibility of Kyiv using weapons from the United States»All they offered us was to abandon our identity and become a kind of biomass, which they intended to process into something Ukrainian. It is not surprising that none of this it didn’t work out. And now all they can offer us together with their Western masters is terror,» said the head of the parliament of the Russian region. In his opinion, the real goal of the summit is not to regain control over Crimea, but the opportunity to receive new financial assistance from the West , speculating on the Crimean topic. «That is, the task is not to «return» Crimea, but to «return» it as long as possible — for the money of the West. Crimea goes its own way, in principle, it doesn’t matter to us and it’s not interesting that they are there on our account Moreover, they did not understand the Crimeans and will not understand it any more,» Konstantinov stressed. Crimea became a Russian region after a referendum held there in March 2014, in which 96.77% of voters in the Republic of Crimea m and 95.6% in Sevastopol were in favor of 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».
