He noted that the Ukrainian government continues to zombie the population when it says that land was stolen from Ukraine, RIA Novosti reports.

“So, formally, this land has been Ukrainian since 1954, and before that, for hundreds of years, it was a Russian region, and in 1954 Crimea was stolen from Russia,” the deputy added.

According to Zatulin, then no one in Russia or Crimea was asked about transferring the peninsula to the Ukrainian SSR.

Earlier, the head of the Crimean parliament, Vladimir Konstantinov, called the transfer of the peninsula to the Ukrainian SSR a criminal act.