The Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Serhiy Shoigu responded to the words of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky about the seized Crimea by an old Odesa anecdote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kyiv. Ukraine. Ukraine Gate – August 06, 2021 \u2013 Ukraine News<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The head of the Ministry of Defense on Friday, August 6, during a meeting with Krasnoyarsk journalists, claimed that Ukrainian leaders are changing, and the peninsula will always be “Russian”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Minister told an anecdote about the fountain q compared its fate with the fate of Crimea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You know, there is an old Odessa <\/a>anecdote when a visitor asks at Soborka about a fountain that doesn’t work: “Did the fountain hit here?” He beat, is and will be “, -” flashing “Shoigu’s humor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Another official claimed that everything would be the same with the peninsula as with the fountain. In his opinion, the situation with Crimea will not be affected by the change of Ukrainian leaders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Earlier, Volodymyr Zelensky stressed that Crimea is Ukrainian territory and will never become “Russian. “<\/p>\n\n\n\n The President also said that in Russia a large number of citizens <\/a>do not support the aggressive policy of the country’s leadership against the Ukrainian state and consider the peninsula a territory controlled by Kyiv.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We will remind, Russia captured the Ukrainian Crimea in the spring of 2014. Ukraine and a number of Western countries, including the United States, did not recognize the peninsula as Russian and punished Russia for its aggression by imposing sanctions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n