In Crimea, the President of Ukraine was reminded Vladimir Zelensky a line from a song by a Russian singer Alla Pugacheva that life cannot be turned back. So the head of the working group on international legal issues at the permanent representation of the peninsula under the President of Russia Alexander Molokhov a> responded to the Ukrainian president’s New Year address, reports RIA Novosti .
In his festive address, Zelensky called on Donbass and Crimea to set clocks back to celebrate the New Year with Ukraine, since these regions live according to Moscow time.
“I have to say honestly, Zelensky’s New Year message to Ukrainians was beautiful, cinematic, but inherently sugary-empty, albeit skillfully exploiting the images of children. As it is sung in the famous song of Alla Pugacheva, “life cannot be turned back and time cannot be stopped for a moment,” said Molokhov.
Formerly a member of Federation Council for international affairs Sergey Tsekov called naivete Zelensky’s desire to write about” Ukrainian Crimea “on the sand in Yalta. He added that Crimeans have not identified themselves with Ukraine for a long time, since Russia is their only native state for them.
Crimea was reunited with Russia after the March 2014 referendum, in which the majority of the residents of the peninsula who voted supported this decision. Kiev refused to recognize the results of the referendum. Russia insists that the accession procedure was in accordance with international law.