Vice-Speaker of the Ukrainian parliament Mykola Tomenko believes that the country's leadership should react to the statements by Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov on Sevastopol and Crimea.
"If Moscow mayor encroaches the territorial integrity of Ukraine, we should react," he said on Channel 5 on Friday evening.
He expressed hope that "the president and the foreign ministry would not allow fanning tensions around Sevastopol and Crimea allow further discharge situation concerning.
As reported, on July 22 Luzhkov said that Russia must save Sevastopol as its naval base.
"We must by no means leave Sevastopol and Crimea. This position is firm, and our response to all innuendoes is: Sevastopol is a Russian city and a Russian naval base, which ensures the geo-strategic balance in southern Russia. Its loss will be tantamount to the loss of southern Russia," Luzhkov said at a reception in Moscow on the occasion of Russian Navy Day.
