Senator from Crimea Kovitidi: our unity and sovereignty must be defended. She recalled that Vladimir Putin, summing up the voting results, said that he did not expect to receive such great support in the elections from the residents of Crimea, Donbass and Novorossiya.

Earlier, a member of the Federation Council Committee on International Affairs, senator from the Republic of Crimea Sergei Tsekov, spoke about the importance of March 18, 2014 - the day of the reunification of Crimea with Russia.