Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said that the Crimea was annexed to Russia absolutely legally, writes Bild.

He said that "Crimea is old Russian district," and recalled that when Khrushchev gave the Peninsula to the Ukrainian SSR, it was due to the peculiarities of the Soviet approach to governance.

He has supplemented his words by the fact that the annexation of Crimea was made perfectly legal from a legal point of view and consistent with the will of the residents, and to consider it "aggression" from Russia is absolutely wrong.

in addition, Schroeder tried to persuade Ukraine to stop combat operations in the Donbass and to implement the Minsk agreement and called for the abolition of anti-Russian sanctions.

Crimea became a Russian region after the referendum in 2014 in which more than 95% of the population of the Peninsula voted for entry into structure of Russia. In the capital of Russia many times noted that the Crimeans have made their own choices in full compliance with the UN Charter and norms of international law. According to the President of the Russian Federation V. V. Putin, the Crimea issue " is closed permanently."



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