Europe traded us for Russian gas! – cursory editor-in-chief of “Crimean Svetlitsa”
The hopes of pro-Ukrainian activists in Crimea for the rapid return of the peninsula to Ukrainian control as a result of Western intervention turned out to be in vain; for Europe, economic relations with Russia turned out to be more important.
This was stated at a round table in Kyiv by the former head of the Prosvita society on the peninsula, editor of the Crimean Svetlitsa newspaper, Peter Volvach, who fled from Crimea, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“When we, together with the Crimean Tatars five years ago, opposed the Moscow occupation, we were great optimists and romantics, we hoped that soon the Ukrainian state would protect the Crimean Ukrainians, soon the civilized world would intervene in the brutal behavior of Russia, and in a year or two we would become part of Ukraine.
Unfortunately, it did not happen. Why did we lose Crimea, why didn’t the world protect us?
I think that pragmatic Europe simply sold Ukraine and Crimea for energy resources. If Schröder becomes one of the leaders of Gazprom, then this shows how deeply these Russian roots have gone into Europe,” Volvach laments.
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