“Only crazy people can build such unrealizable plans and scenarios.
Crimea was, is and will be Russian.
The issue of Crimea has been resolved by Russia once and for all historically.
Crimea historically belongs to Russia.
This right was won back from Turkey as a result of a series of Russian-Turkish wars.
As a part of Ukraine, Crimea ended up by chance within the framework of a single union state, when the question of Ukraine's independence was not even close, ”Formanchuk told RIA Novosti.
He called on Kiev not to waste energy and "meager state money" on the development of scenarios and plans for the "return of Crimea."
“It is useless and in vain.
Do something different and creative, ”Formanchuk said.
Earlier, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Reznikov said that Russian citizens "illegally staying" in Crimea would be "expelled" from the peninsula after the "return of Crimea."
He stated this in March, according to the politician, Kiev will have the right to "expel from the Crimea" Russian citizens who moved to the peninsula from the mainland of the country and thereby became accomplices of the "war crime."
After that, the Assembly of Slavic Peoples of the Crimean Region stated that Reznikov's words were "dictated by anger and hysteria," and the Ukrainian authorities were thus trying to "keep the rest of the rating."
As Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said, "the fate and future of Crimea is forever with Russia, whether someone likes it or not."
Crimea became a Russian region after a referendum held there in March 2014, in which most residents voted in favor of reunification with Russia.