“Why this 'platform' was created is understandable - again to attract public opinion to the situation around Crimea.

But I think this project is stillborn and doomed to fail.

Whoever gathers there, these people will not really decide anything and there will be no progress in terms of supporting Ukraine.

This is a talking shop aimed at building tensions.

This is what Kiev is striving for now, ”said Dzhabarov.

He noted that such things "should be treated calmly."

“Crimea and Sevastopol are subjects of the Russian Federation.

And to create some kind of "platforms" on someone else's territory, to put it mildly, is indecent.

Therefore, no one takes it seriously, ”the senator concluded.

Earlier, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, called the representatives of the Ukrainian authorities "masochists" in connection with their intention to hold an international summit of the "Crimean Platform".

Crimea became a Russian region after a referendum held there in March 2014, in which most residents voted in favor of reunification with Russia.