Russia Is Ready to Explain Some Countries' Fallacies Regarding Crimea: Kremlin Spokesman

• 08.25.2021, 16:28
•  EEU,  Region,  World

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Despite blossoming ties between Moscow and Ankara, relations now risk being derailed by Turkey’s decision to back Ukraine’s claims over the status of Crimea, after the country sent its top diplomat to Kiev in a show of support.

That’s according to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, who expressed concern that Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu participated in the ‘Crimean Summit’ forum on Monday. The meeting was held to discuss how best Ukraine can re-assert control over the peninsula, which was reabsorbed into Russia in 2014, RT reports. 

''Russian-Turkish relations as a whole are about partnership, not only in name, but genuinely based on a real and solid foundation of trade, economic and investment activity,'' Peskov said. ''But this does not mean that this relationship is free from significant disagreements.''

''The Crimean topic is the area of significant disagreement. We do not accept the position of our Turkish colleagues and we consider it absolutely wrong,'' the Kremlin official added.

Launching the ‘Crimean Platform’ on Monday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that the day would be remembered as ''the start of the de-occupation of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol.''