They stated this on the ATR channel.
“We will not say the phrases you want to hear from us,” said Maria Opanasyuk.
According to her, “smart people” will independently be able to make a conclusion as to which country the peninsula is part of.
In turn, her sister Anna added that Ukraine had "lost" the Crimea.
“We can endlessly say that our Crimea is, but we are going there through two borders,” she concluded.
Earlier, Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Vyacheslav Kirilenko said that Kiev should refuse to participate in Eurovision because of the policy of Moscow.
Crimea became the Russian region after the referendum held there in March 2014, in which the majority of the inhabitants of the peninsula spoke in favor of reunification with Russia.