"Crimea is Ukraine. It means a lot for the ones who are occupied that others don't recognize this as Russian."

The European Union will never recognize the Russian-occupied Crimean peninsula as legally Russian, the bloc’s top diplomat Kaja Kallas told Agence France-Presse (AFP) on April 22.

Kallas’ comments come in response to reports that the recognition of Crimea as Russian territory is being considered as part of a U.S.-backed proposal to end the war in Ukraine.

“Crimea is Ukraine,” Kallas told the AFP.

  • Auli@lemmy.caEnglish
    101·
    8 hours ago

    Who the fuck cares. You dint invade another country their are other ways to achieve the goal if they wanted to join Russia.

    • DicJacobus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      5 hours ago

      Russia cant compete economically, technologically, or diplomatically, all they have is violence and coercion, No one except chauvinists would ever -want- to join Russia, so if Russia wants someone to join them, they really only have one card, war.

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        5 hours ago

        That’s obviously untrue. We’ve spent centuries endorsing invasion of other countries and obliteration of their native cultures.

        NAFOs are very defensive of Ukraine because its territory that was staked out by Western Europe after the fall of the USSR. No takesies-backsies.