“After the editor of the Crimean Newspaper and the Crimean Journal, Maria Volkova, at the OSCE meeting in Warsaw, called Crimea Russian, our delegation in full force left the meeting. However, after consultations with partners, the delegation decided not to stop working in the two-week meeting, ”Interfax-Ukraine quotes the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry.

At the same time, the Permanent Representative of Ukraine to international organizations in Vienna, Yevgeny Tsymbalyuk, threatened that “in the event of a negative development, Ukraine will consider the possibility of leaving the meeting in full.”

“The lack of proper reaction from the leading Warsaw meeting is unacceptable. The delegation of Ukraine left the hall in protest, ”he wrote on Twitter.

Earlier, the Ukrainian delegation left the OSCE meeting during a speech by the editor-in-chief of the Crimean newspaper, Maria Volkonskaya.

According to the journalist, she herself regarded this act of the delegation as "reluctance to hear the uncomfortable truth about the life of the Russian Crimea."

Crimea became the Russian region after the referendum of 2014, in which the majority of the inhabitants of the peninsula called for reunification with Russia.