“This is what Ukraine needs - for the European course to lead to an economic growth through which residents of Donbass and even Crimea kick their feet for returning to Ukraine,” said Vashchikovsky.
Earlier, Bundestag deputy Anton Friesen from the Alternative for Germany party said that EU sanctions against Russia would not lead to a change in the status of the peninsula and that it would remain Russian.
Member of the Federation Council Committee on Foreign Affairs, Sergei Tsekov, in an interview with the FAN, praised this statement by Friesen.
Crimea became the Russian region after a referendum held in March 2014, in which most residents spoke out for reunification with Russia.