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According to the leader of the Belarusian opposition, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, she is ready to repeat in Kiev that Crimea is Ukrainian.
Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, in an interview with European Pravda, published on April 1, said that Crimea is the territory of Ukraine.
“Crimea is Ukrainian,” he said.
The journalist pointed out that before, more vague formulations on this topic sounded.
“When you speak vaguely, it does not mean that you are wrong. You just speak in diplomatic language. Now I have said clearly, I answered questions,” said the politician.
When asked if she was ready to repeat this when she arrived in Kiev, Tikhanovskaya replied, “Of course.”
During the election campaign, during which Tikhanovskaya fought for the presidency of Belarus, she first refused to comment on the Russian occupation of Crimea and then expressed the position taken in Belarus that Crimea is de jure Ukrainian and de facto Russian.
On February 11, 2021, Tikhanovskaya, during an online meeting with the Ukrainian people’s deputies, members of the inter-factional group “For Democratic Belarus”, said that the annexed Crimea is part of Ukraine, but for several years it has been de facto controlled. by Russia.
In an interview with the founder of the online publication GORDON, Dmitry Gordon, in February, Tikhanovskaya said that he needed special courage to talk about Ukraine’s membership in the Russian-occupied Donbass and Crimea territories.
Russia annexed Crimea after an illegal referendum on March 16, 2014. Ukraine and most countries in the world do not recognize the annexation of the peninsula to the Russian Federation. At the moment, there is a checkpoint regime between mainland Ukraine and Crimea, and Kiev does not de facto control the peninsula.
Immediately after the annexation of Crimea, Russia launched an armed aggression in eastern Ukraine. The fighting is between the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) on the one hand and the Russian army and the Russian-backed militants who control parts of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions on the other. Officially, the Russian Federation does not recognize its invasion of Ukraine, despite the facts and evidence presented by Ukraine.
Legally, Belarus did not recognize Crimea as Russian territory.
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