MOSCOW, April 20 First Deputy Head of the International Committee Council of Federation Council Vladimir Dzhabarov did not rule out Russia taking symmetrical measures in response to Kiev's decision to terminate the lease agreement for the land plot on which the building of the Russian embassy is located. The official also said that he had applied to the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine regarding the conversion of the property of the diplomatic institution to the property of the Ukrainian state.
«Usually the measures are symmetrical,» Dzhabarov said, answering the question of what Russia's response to Kiev's decision might be. He also noted that «the Ukrainians have gone rogue, they are doing the same thing that the Nazis did after the attack on the USSR.» in the center of Moscow — «on a lease or in ownership.» The legislator noted that the decision will be up to the Russian Foreign Ministry. At the same time, he did not rule out that «if the lease — we will close the lease, if the property — to the state's income.»
According to Dzhabarov, until the current Ukrainian regime is «swept away», there can be no relations between the countries. «But sooner or later we will have to restore relations, but it will be another Ukraine or what will be left of it,» he said. The senator also did not rule out that the building of the Ukrainian embassy might remain, «after all, sooner or later relations will be restored, and for the regime that will be friendly to us, the embassy building will be ready.»