According Chernyak, this is a "provocation of pure water."

“In addition, they went on a provocation, realizing that they would not bear serious responsibility for it - they did not put down the Ukrainian flag in Russia,” he said.

According to him, Crimea will not return to Ukraine, and this issue is closed completely.

Earlier, a member of the Federation Council committee on international affairs, Sergei Tsekov, in an interview with RT, commented on the statement by the elected deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Oleg Voloshin that Russia became a “warring party” after reunification with Crimea.