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Svoboda parliamentary faction leader Oleh Tiahnybok said the Ukrainian Armed Forces that are now in Crimea have no intention of leaving the peninsula.

“The Ukrainian troops will not leave Crimea. It’s our territory, and we will defend this territory,” Tiahnybok told reporters in Kyiv on March 17.

Tiahnybok believes the referendum held in Crimea on March 16 was not legitimate. He called it a “pseudo-sociological poll.”