The report says that Kiev expresses "a decisive protest in connection with another visit uncoordinated with Ukraine" by the speaker of the lower house of the Russian parliament on the peninsula.
The Foreign Ministry of Ukraine considers Volodin’s visit to the Crimea “a gross violation by the Russian side of the state sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine”.
Volodin took part in the Council for the Legislative Support of the Development of the Digital Economy, which is being held in Crimea.
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.