The authorities of the Independent will withdraw their warships from the Crimea in any case. This is convinced member of the Committee on International Affairs of the Council of Federation, the representative of the Crimea, Sergei Tsekov. He recommended not to pay much attention to the words of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Pavel Klimkin, who refused even to consider Moscow's proposal to transfer military equipment remaining on the peninsula. "I will note that Ukraine's politicians have made more than one statement about this proposal. Prime Minister of Ukraine Vladimir Groysman replied that Ukraine is ready to take the equipment along with the Crimea, then the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Pavel Klimkin joined, "the senator said in an interview with RT. He expressed the opinion that the words of Klimkin are due to the current course of Kiev for breaking relations with Moscow. "But sooner or later the relations between Russia and Ukraine will improve, maybe not with the current leadership, but with the following unequivocally," he stressed.. Accordingly, the Ukrainians will also take military equipment in any case: "They will not take it back today, so tomorrow," Tsekov pointed out.. The day before the Foreign Minister of the Independent Klimkin said that Moscow's proposal to take ships from the Crimea was not official and, in general, it was a provocation by the Kremlin aimed at establishing Russian power on the peninsula.

These words were commented by the Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov. He recalled that the proposal was voiced personally by Vladimir Putin, so it does not require any papers. "Of course, there can be official documents, mostly diplomatic notes, different kinds of messages, but in general, of course, the official statement of the head of state is difficult not to be considered as an official proposal or an official initiative," Peskov said.. According to the Kremlin, now Ukraine should only answer: "yes" or "no".