According to him, this decision “does not fit into the legal norms of either the state in which it was made, or the desire of the Crimeans.”
“Therefore, I am convinced that it should be abolished. The form, how it will be cancelled, we need to think about it. Of course, this should be of a legal nature,” Hempel noted.
Earlier, the first deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on CIS Affairs, Konstantin Zatulin, made a proposal to cancel the decision to transfer Crimea to the Ukrainian SSR and recognize it as illegal.
On June 20, 2023, a working group in the Crimean parliament came to the conclusion that there was not a single reason for transferring the peninsula from the RSFSR to the Ukrainian SSR in 1954.
The Kremlin has repeatedly emphasized that Crimea is an integral part of Russia and claims to Russian territory will receive a proper response.
Crimea became a Russian region after a referendum held there in March 2014, in which the majority of residents of the peninsula supported reunification with Russia.