Speaker of the State Council of Crimea Konstantinov: in fact Lukashenko recognized the peninsula as Russian status. Such an assessment was given by the chairman of the Crimean parliament Vladimir Konstantinov, RIA Novosti writes.
According to him, people have been waiting for such a statement for a long time. In addition, subordinates in Belarus were waiting for the position of their leadership. “In fact, this is already a confession,” concluded Konstantinov.
During a meeting of the Supreme State Council of the Union State, Lukashenko complained that Russian President Vladimir Putin did not take him with him to Crimea. In turn, the Belarusian parliamentarian Andrei Savinykh considered that these words “without any doubt” are the recognition of the Russian peninsula.
Crimea became part of Russia in March 2014 after a referendum, where the overwhelming majority of the region's residents who voted supported this decision … Ukraine, the EU countries and the United States refused to recognize the results of the vote, calling the reunification of the peninsula with mainland Russia an annexation.