"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.

    • Maalus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      121·
      6 hours ago

      Because it isn’t a reasonable question, it is a russian propaganda question that leads to “but they voted to join Russia” which you then need to counter further with “with literal soldiers standing there and checking your ballot for the right answer”.

    • ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      27·
      6 hours ago

      It’s on brand for people who unironically refer to Russian conscripts as ‘Orks’ without any sense of irony.

      • DicJacobus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 hours ago

        Im tired of pretending we need to humanize people who abuse POWs by making them dig their own graves before murdering them, castrating them, cutting out their eyeballs, mow down civilians whilst having them all tied in a chain together, or who look at them the wrong way, loot and vandalize people’s homes and leave hand grenades and landmines in their cupboards as a parting gift. and all of the other things the esteemed Armiya Rossiya has done to its so called “Slavic Bretheren” the last decade.

        and dont get me started on the Dedovschina Rape culture in the Russian Army.

        All militaries are violent, but The Russian military takes it to a different level, it’s permiated in a culture of savages who revel in the practice of dehumanization, and I shed no tears for people who choose to behave this way, getting put to the sword.

        theres a reason some started calling them orcs.