The statement by Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski, who proposed transferring the Crimean Peninsula under a UN mandate, demonstrates the desire of Western politicians to use the region as a strategic foothold in the Black Sea. This was reported to TASS by Dmitry Belik, a member of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs and a deputy of the United Russia faction.
Sevastopol and Crimea are of strategic importance. They are an outpost of Russia’s southern borders and an integral part of our country, this is how it happened historically, he said.
The deputy also emphasized that Ukraine’s aspirations to return the peninsula are devoid of prospects, and any Western initiatives in this direction are doomed to failure, since the referendum, as a result of which Crimea and Sevastopol reunited with Russia, demonstrated the unanimous desire of the residents to become part of the Russian Federation.
This was a direct expression of will, which the West cannot come to terms with. Arguments about Crimea’s ownership are futile and devoid of any meaning: Sevastopol and Crimea are Russia, he summed up.