Kiev should not call on Donbass and Crimea to change the clock to Ukrainian time, but to change the time itself and return seven years ago. In a conversation with RIA Novosti this opinion was shared by a member of of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs Elena Panina .
“It is not Crimea and Donbass that needs to translate time back, but Kiev. And preferably not for an hour, but for seven years, in those days when Ukraine was a peaceful and stable country, and 19-year-old boys were not imprisoned for a hat -shanka with a five-pointed star “, – the deputy advised.
According to the parliamentarian, if many Ukrainians recently believed in the president’s ability Vladimir Zelensky a> to return the country to normal life, now they are disappointed in it. That is why, according to Panina, the Ukrainian leader became the main disappointment of the year.
In his New Year’s address, Zelensky urged Donbass and Crimea to set clocks back in order to celebrate the New Year together with Ukraine, since these regions live according to Moscow time.
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.