The embassy said that nothing new was heard, since "with declarations and statements on Crimea, the State Department is quarterly". The whole answer of the embassy was published in social network. "They are trying to operate with international legal acts containing provisions on the right of peoples to self-determination, which formed the basis for the return of the Crimea to Russia in 2014," - recorded in the page of the diplomatic mission in Facebook. And yet, despite the "myth of occupation and aggression" in the Crimea, hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians rest on the peninsula every year and musicians and athletes from the United States constantly perform, the embassy noted.. Next to the statement, the Russian diplomatic mission in Washington posted a picture of the White House with American and Serbian flags - thereby July 28, 1918. The US showed its solidarity with the people of Serbia on the fourth anniversary of the outbreak of World War I.

"We are waiting for the declaration of the State Department that Kosovo is Serbia," concluded the Russian embassy. Earlier it became known that US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo signed the Crimean Declaration, which defines the non-recognition of the peninsula as part of Russia's official American policy. Crimea returned to the Russian Federation after a referendum held there in March 2014. On it, the majority of the inhabitants of the peninsula and Russia called for reunification with Russia, recalls RT.