“Ukraine received all these lands, being part of the Soviet Union, and completely free! And the newly-made so-called patriots only learned that they squander these lands, and even at the cost of tens of thousands of human lives, ”Azarov wrote on his Twitter.
Earlier, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said that during negotiations with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, he raised the issue of Crimea, but noted that Russia does not want to discuss this.
The Verkhovna Rada deputy from the “Servant of the People” faction Yevgenia Kravchuk, in turn, suggested “getting through” to the residents of Donbass and Crimea through television.
Crimea became the Russian region after a referendum held there in March 2014, in which most residents spoke out for reunification with Russia.