In Russia, they replied with a proverb to the words about the voluntary surrender of Crimea by Kiev
Political scientist Balbek: the Ukrainian authorities are ashamed to admit that Crimea hated and despised them Ukraine voluntarily renounced the armed struggle for Crimea in 2014, not because of weakness or “Maidan syndrome”, the new authorities of the republic were ashamed to admit that the peninsula hated them and despised. This was stated by the former State Duma deputy, political scientist Ruslan Balbek, commenting on the words of the former adviser to the US Congress, Ph.D. and political scientist Ariel Cohen, Izvestia reports on Friday, December 3. Balbek pointed out that the mood of the bulk of the Crimean residents was significantly different from those that prevailed among the supporters of the new government in Kiev. In addition, the Russian Black Sea Fleet was “a rather sobering factor”. “Having weighed their chances, the Maidan authorities decided not to get involved in the war for Crimea and gave up everything that