“For us, Crimea is Ukraine, Donbass is Ukraine, and it will always be so,” he said in an interview with Bloomberg.
In 2019, Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić told the Rossiya 24 TV channel why Belgrade cannot recognize Crimea as Russian territory.
According to him, in this case, Belgrade would have been given an analogy with Kosovo and would have declared the independence of the region.
In turn, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Moscow highly appreciates the principled position of Vučić.
Later, the Serbian leader called the issue of the entry of new territories into Russia difficult.
Crimea became a Russian region after a referendum held there in March 2014, in which the majority of residents voted for reunification with Russia.