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.
I don’t understand why Russias illegitimate referendum gives the EU the authority to decide tho?
Ukraine decides. EU is supporting the intergrity of Ukraine which was unjustly violated by Russia.
What do you mean? Crimea was Ukrainian, it was invaded and then pulled into Russia. EU doesn’t have to “decide” anything, it was an invasion and against the law, therefore invalid.