Official representative of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Maria Zakharova responded to the threat of Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba to turn the Crimean topic into” hellish “in 2021. She shared her point of view in Facebook .
“A statement from the underworld,” she wrote, citing one of the headlines of the media with the statement of the head of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry.
Earlier, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmitry Kuleba threatened in 2021 to initiate increased international sanctions against Russia on the status of the Crimean Peninsula. According to him, the main lever of pressure on Moscow should be the so-called “Crimean Platform” – an international negotiating platform for the return of the peninsula to Kiev’s authority.
The Russian senator reacted to the statement soon the Russian senator Alexey Pushkov . He noted that Kiev has no way of putting pressure on Moscow. He added that Ukraine hopes for tougher anti-Russian sanctions from the United States. “Such a development of events is possible, but it will also not lead to changes in the status of Crimea,” the senator stressed.
Crimea was reunited with Russia after the March 2014 referendum, in which the majority of the residents of the peninsula who voted supported this decision. Kiev refused to recognize the results of the referendum. Russia insists that the accession procedure was in accordance with international law.