Dan Sten Olsson defends Russian annexation of Crimea

The annexation of the Ukraine peninsula by Russia, Crimea, in 2014, has barely been recognized by the outside world, but on the contrary, it has been condemned and considered illegal, a violation of international international law.

“Today, three years after Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea and Sevastopol, Sweden continues to condemn Russia’s aggression and safeguard Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity under international law,” said then-Foreign Minister Margot Wallström, S, in a statement on the third anniversary of the annexation.

But Dan Sten Olsson, 73, owner and CEO of Stena Empire, and consistently on Sweden’s richest people lists, believes that Crimea, in fact, never belonged to Ukraine.

“I have always belonged to them”

In an interview with DN, he says:

– Russia is definitely right. I think it is a bad impulse not to hand Crimea over to the Russians immediately. Because it has always belonged to them, Dan Sten Olsson tells the newspaper and believes that the annexation is the result of a broken promise from NATO after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

They (the Russians, editor’s note) cannot one day risk not being allowed to have a naval base in Crimea. Because then the nation is over, continues DN.

Stena hit hard in the pandemic

When the newspaper calls Dan Sten Olsson a day after the interview for a new comment on the statements about Crimea, he says that the world community has “a high moral right” while adding that this does not prevent anyone from having their own opinions about things.

Stena Line, like many other large companies, has been hit hard during the corona pandemic and has announced a large portion of the workforce. According to an estimate this spring, the company will lose 80 percent of all passenger traffic in Europe by 2020.

GP writes that the Stena empire will make a loss of around four billion crowns by 2020, which in that case will be the first time in 80 years that you lose.