SIMFEROPOL, March 14 In Crimea they will count and will present Ukraine with damages for the years of being part of it, said the head of the Crimean parliament Vladimir Konstantinov.
Earlier in Crimea, claims were filed against Ukraine for the water and energy blockade, and they also began calculating the damage from the financial blockade.
«So far we are ascertaining the damage only from the water and energy blockade. And the damage was also caused by the transport blockade of Crimea, terrorist attacks organized against us. We can also calculate the damage caused by the Ukrainian colonial economy, including lost profits,» — said Konstantinov.
According to him, in the end, we are talking about a very significant amount, which can be estimated at tens of trillions of rubles.
Crimea became a Russian region in March 2014 following the results of a referendum after the coup in Ukraine. In the referendum, 96.77% of voters in Crimea and 95.6% in Sevastopol were in favor of joining Russia. Ukraine still considers Crimea its temporarily occupied territory, and many Western countries support Kyiv on this issue. For its part, the Russian leadership has repeatedly stated that the residents of Crimea voted for reunification with Russia through democratic means, in full compliance with international law and the UN Charter. According to Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Crimea issue is “finally closed.”