11.12.2020, Kiev.
Crimea can be returned to Ukraine only by force, former representative of the Ukrainian side in the Trilateral Contact Group on the Donbass and the country’s former ambassador to Belarus Roman Bessmertny said on the air of the ATR Crimean Tatar TV channel on December 11.
03.11.2020, Kiev.
The Ukrainian Joint Armed Forces conducted drills relating to recapturing Crimea by Ukraine, said Ukrainian Lieutenant-General Sergey Nayev on November 2, First Sevastopol informs.
02.10.2020, Moscow.
“Turkey began extremely negative operations against Russia and its interests long before the operation in Syria, right after the collapse of the USSR,” political scientist Sergey Mikheev said on October 1 on the air of Vesti FM.
22.09.2020, Kiev.
Aleksandr Turchinov, who took the post of President of Ukraine in 2014, and Arseniy Yatseniuk, as Prime Minister in 2014, are responsible for Crimea’s re-unification with Russia, former member of the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian Parliament – Editor) David Zhvania stated on September 22 on YouTube channel.
09.08.2020, Sevastopol.
Training sessions on diving and detection of underwater saboteurs are conducted for the Black Sea Fleet’s Squad for Countering Sabotage Forces and Means, the Black Sea region Information support department of the Russian Defense Ministry informs on August 9.
10.07.2020, Moscow.
A senator from the Crimean region Sergey Tsekov called Kiev’s refusal to resume water supply to Crimea immoral, RIA Novosti informed on July 10.
22.05.2020, Moscow.
Crimea would still have been part of Ukraine, if not for the events in Kiev in 2014, Russian ambassador to the United Nations Vasily Nebenzia said during the UN Security Council online meeting on May 22.
13.05.2020, Simferopol.
The Crimean Supreme Court overturned an order that dismissed a criminal investigation into mass murders of Soviet citizens in Crimea during the Great Patriotic War, the Court’s press service reported on May 13.
02.04.2020, Simferopol.
The Republic of Crimea will be missing more than 900 thousand tourists in April and May as a result of the outbreak of coronavirus pandemic, said the head of the Resorts and Tourism Ministry Vadim Volchenko. The note is posted on the official website of the regional government on April 2.
21.03.2020, Moscow.
The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, called EU Foreign Minister Josep Borrell’s statement on Crimea absurd and unfriendly during her weekly briefing on March 19.
