He made the corresponding statement in an interview with the Ukrainian TV channel ICTV.

“Crimea will return, but we all understand when there will be a change of power in Russia,” RIA Novosti quotes him.

At the same time, he indicated that he did not know how to return the peninsula immediately after winning the presidential elections in the country.

Earlier, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko promised to return the Crimea "without bargaining and backstage arrangements."

Olga Timofeeva, a member of the committee of the Federation Council on international affairs, in an interview with the Izvestia newspaper commented on Poroshenko’s promise.

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.