Member of the Federation Council for International Affairs, Senator from Crimea Sergei Tsekov called the desires outlined by the President of Ukraine in the New Year's address to the people to the people naive.
“I am surprised at the naivety of what was said.
You can be a naive person in life, but a naive president is a big disaster for the state.
The level of the modern leadership of Ukraine, unable to adequately perceive the international reality, in which Crimea is an integral part of Russia, is very indicative, "RIA Novosti quotes the senator.
Recall that the Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy in his New Year's address called on the residents of Donbass and Crimea to “be with Ukraine”.
“I know that for almost an hour you have been waiting for us to celebrate the New Year together.
As one family, as one people, as one country.
Donbass and Crimea, set the clock back, be with us, ”Zelensky said.
According to him, Lugansk, Donetsk and Crimea now, in all senses, "live in a different time."
“I want not to say on Bankova in Kiev (the residence of the President of Ukraine is located there. -
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) that peace will come, but to say to Artyom in Donetsk that peace has come in Ukraine.
And write that Crimea is Ukraine, not on the Internet, but on the sand on the beach in Yalta, ”the Ukrainian president said.
Tsekov noted that Crimeans do not associate themselves with Ukraine, since they have a historical homeland - Russia.
According to him, Kiev understands this, but continues to speculate on such topics.
“It is regrettable that Zelensky, instead of showing wisdom and congratulating the Crimeans on their successes in the development of Russian Crimea, continued to engage in populism and self-deception,” the senator concluded.
The head of the Committee of the Parliament of the Republic of Crimea on Tourism, Resorts and Sports Alexei Chernyak called Zelensky a "storyteller."
“It's ridiculous to listen to this already.
The whole world, all politicians in Europe and America have not even remembered this topic for a long time.
Storyteller, in a word.
He is trying to reassure himself that he is still the president of Ukraine, and hopes that someone is listening to him, ”Chernyak told RIA Novosti.
Ruslan Balbek, a deputy of the State Duma from Crimea, spoke in a similar vein.
"No one in the world already believes that Crimea can be taken from Russia, and only President Zelensky, apparently, considers himself smarter than the whole planet, he even found sand in Yalta, which was never there, because all the beaches on the southern coast of Crimea are pebbly." , - said the parliamentarian.
Along with this, the deputy noted that the Ukrainian government over the past years has systematically made promises that cannot be fulfilled.
“Under Poroshenko, they promised to hold a parade in Sevastopol almost next Sunday, Zelensky was going to draw some messages on the sand in Yalta yesterday, but only there is no sand in Yalta - the Ukrainian president will have nothing to write slogans on,” Balbek said.
Note that the Ukrainian leadership is systematically addressing the issue of Crimea's ownership.
In particular, Zelenskiy previously called the "return" of the peninsula to Ukraine as one of his tasks as president.
Recall that Crimea became a Russian region after a referendum held there in March 2014, in which most of the inhabitants of the peninsula spoke in favor of reunification with Russia.
Elena Panina, a member of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs, advised the Ukrainian authorities to travel back in time and go back seven years, when Ukraine was a peaceful and stable country.
“It’s not the Crimea and Donbass that need to transfer time back, but Kiev.
And preferably not for an hour, but for seven years, in those days when Ukraine was a peaceful and stable country, and 19-year-old boys were not imprisoned for a cap with earflaps with a five-pointed star, "RIA Novosti quotes Panina.
Zelensky's speech was also commented on by Alexander Molokhov, head of the working group on international legal issues at the Permanent Mission of Crimea to the President of Russia.
According to him, Zelensky's New Year message to Ukrainians was "beautiful, cinematic, but inherently sugary-empty, although it skillfully exploits the images of children."
“In part of Crimea, he (Zelensky. -
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) suggested that the inhabitants of the peninsula move to a virtual time machine, forgetting that, as Alla Pugacheva's famous song says,“ life cannot be turned back and time cannot be stopped for a moment, ”concluded Molokhov in conversation with RIA Novosti.