In Ukraine, a case was opened against 23 Russian artists who visited Crimea

This is stated in the statement of the "Prosecutor's Office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea" created by Kiev.

"Under the procedural leadership of the Prosecutor's Office of the autonomy, criminal proceedings have begun on the fact of illegal entry / exit from / to the occupied peninsula of 23 Russian artists who were sent to Crimea to perform at a concert on the occasion of the opening of the illegally built bridge across the Kerch Strait," the ministry's Telegram channel says ...

These actions are qualified by Kiev as "a violation of the procedure for entering and leaving the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine, committed repeatedly or by prior conspiracy by a group of persons."

At the end of January, the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine blacklisted Russian artists Olga Kormukhina, Olga Zasulskaya, Igor Sarukhanov, Denis Klyaver and Mark Tishman.

Crimea became a Russian region after a referendum was held there in March 2014, in which most of the inhabitants of the peninsula spoke out in favor of reunification with Russia.