Russia's presidential candidate Ksenia Sobchak was tired of the accusations and was justified for her words about the Crimea during the debates on the air of "The First Channel". She disowned the agitation on the peninsula, stressing that she had never intended to do so. According to her, the main purpose of the visit to the Crimea is humanitarian aid. "I was not going to agitate in the Crimea, but I received thousands of complaints from Crimean Tatars, from people who lost property there, and I was going to go to Crimea with a humanitarian mission," Sobchak said.. At the same time, Ksenia continues to assert that the peninsula is a "huge problem" for the country. She believes that due to the accession to Russia serious conflicts began in relations between countries around the world. "Yes, I believe that this is a huge problem and my children have to solve it," Sobchak added.. The candidate for the presidency earlier applied to the Ukrainian embassy for permission to visit the Crimea, which she considers to be a territory of Nezalezhnaya.

The head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Pavel Klimkin, called such actions "political schizophrenia," while State Duma deputy Natalia Poklonskaya demanded that Sobchak be imprisoned.

She is sure that the candidate's actions fall under the article of the Criminal Code on the violation of the territorial integrity of Russia, according to which the maximum penalty is 4 years of imprisonment. "This raises the question:

how can you be the head of state without recognizing its territorial integrity? I hope this question has already interested the CEC," said Poklonskaya. At the same time Xenia already visited the peninsula in 2014 and then she did not ask anyone permission. Crimea became part of Russia in March 2014. on the basis of a referendum. Almost 97% of the inhabitants of the peninsula voted for the republic's membership in the Russian Federation. In Sevastopol, 95.6% of citizens voted for joining Russia.