Deputy chairman of the German right-wing party "Alternative for Germany" Alexander Gauland called the annexed Russian peninsula Crimea Crimea "originally Russian territory".

The corresponding statement he made at the political meeting in Karlsruhe, reports DW.

The politician criticized the sanctions imposed on the aggressor country and found them incorrect.

"Sanctions are always wrong and politically incorrect. They will not return any particles of the Crimea. Crimea is a native Russian territory, it can not return to Ukraine, "Gauland stressed..

He also added that after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the West could not build a new world order with the participation of the Russian Federation.

"We Germans always lived well when we had good relations with Russia," he said..

Note that Alexander Gauland is the leader of the electoral list of "Alternatives for Germany". Elections to the Bundestag will be held on September 24. The party intends to go to the federal parliament for the first time in history.

As reported by the "Observer", German Chancellor Angela Merkel earlier criticized the new US sanctions against Russia.

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