Natalia Poklonskaya invited representatives of the State Department to come to the peninsula and make sure of the legality of his reunification with Russia. Poklonskaya made her invitation after the State Department published another statement, which again underlines the illegitimacy of the Crimean referendum that took place in 2014. "They got bogged down that everything is bad, everything is bad, a referendum staged. Come to us, do not be afraid of us. Just come and see where it's staged? "- quoted the deputy of the State Duma of RIA" Novosti ". At the same time, Poklonskaya is sure that it is pointless to prove anything to the American Foreign Ministry. "They look stupid. You can not endlessly behave this way, you can not so much not respect the rights of people and disregard for other countries, for other people, for us, for the Crimeans, "she added.. In turn, Senator Alexei Pushkov was less diplomatic. He reminded the Americans that Crimea belonged to Russia, when the US was not yet in the project. "The Crimea was Russian even when the US did not really have it: only managed to illegally and with weapons in hand to secede from Britain," Pushkov wrote in his Twitter microblogging.

A document entitled "Crimea is Ukraine" appeared on the website of the State Department on March 14 in connection with a visit to the peninsula of President Vladimir Putin. In a statement, the US foreign affairs agency stresses that Crimean residents were forced to vote at the barrels of Russian rifles in a referendum, that the United States considers the peninsula a Ukrainian territory, and therefore the anti-Russian sanctions will remain in force until the region is part of the Russian Federation.