Blockade of Crimea from Kiev underlines that the Ukrainian Authorities have not consider this their Peninsula, said the leader of "Democratic movement" Nino Burjanadze.
on Sunday, activists of the banned in Russia as extremist movement "Right sector" and other Ukrainian organizations blocked the delivery of food to the Crimea and started a "perpetual food blockade" of the Peninsula. Crimean authorities called the action pointless. The Kiev Authorities do not create obstacles to the blockade of the Peninsula.
"Recent events that have evolved around the Crimea, I mean the blockade, declare once again about what I was saying: Crimea is part of Russia and never will be Ukrainian," she told reporters on the sidelines of the Eurasian women's forum, which takes place in St. Petersburg.
According to Burjanadze, the Kiev Authorities, hindering the blockade of the Crimea from the " Right sector ", without realizing it, " and this proves that the Crimeans do not consider their fellow citizens ".
"How can you block people, instead of to talk. I think they (the Ukrainian Authorities - ed.) themselves play into the hands of all those people who see that Crimea is part of Russia and never will be Ukrainian, " she added.
Crimea became a Russian region after held in March 2014 referendum in which a Large number of residents at that time still Ukrainian autonomy, do not recognise the legality of the coup d'etat in Ukraine, voted for annexation by Russia. In the capital of Russia emphasize that the referendum in Crimea meets standards of international law and the UN Charter. Ukraine still considers the Crimea her, but at the time occupied territory.
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