Lavrov says Kiev and Zelensky’s line to take Crimea will fail – Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov
“Voicing a line that was pursued then (until February 2022 – ed.) ‘hybrid’ and now on the battlefield, Zelensky claims that they will ‘win this war and take all their lands’, including Crimea. In doing so, he forgets the history of the peninsula. Maybe he did not know it at all when he was “engaged” in the Club for the Happy and Resourceful. I have no doubt at all that such a line will fail,” Lavrov said in an interview for the film “Nazism Under Investigation,” the text of the interview is published on the website of the Russian Foreign Ministry.
Crimea became a Russian region in March 2014 following a referendum after a coup in Ukraine. In the referendum, 96.77 per cent of voters in Crimea and 95.6 per cent in Sevastopol voted in favour of becoming part of Russia. Ukraine still considers Crimea its temporarily occupied territory and many Western countries support Kiev on this issue. For its part, the Russian leadership has repeatedly stated that Crimean residents voted for reunification with Russia in a democratic way, in full compliance with international law and the UN Charter. According to Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Crimea issue is “closed for good”.
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