“Up to this point, it (Crimea) has been perceived exclusively as a Russian territory. And in 2014 the peninsula joined the Russian Federation on the basis of a referendum in which the overwhelming majority of the inhabitants of the peninsula took part. And now it will not be returned to Ukraine or any other country.”
Russia's War Against Ukraine
Polygraph: Moscow insist Crimea is Russian, UN says is occupied territory
A woman waits at a bus stop in front of a graffiti depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin on a building in Sevastopol, Crimea, on March 12.
