Former residents of Ukraine, who changed their homeland to other lands, are eager to see changes in the Crimea and the main engineering landmark of the peninsula - the bridge over the Kerch Strait. Currently, there are representatives of seven countries in the Crimea - Italy, Germany, Poland, Bulgaria, Moldova, Georgia, Lithuania, in whose veins Ukrainian blood flows. They arrived on the peninsula to participate in the round table "Development of Ukrainian Crimean Connections with Compatriots Abroad," said the head of the Ukrainian community of the Republic of Crimea Anastasia Gridchina. According to her, congress participants want to know the truth about the life of the Crimean Ukrainians and the Crimea as a whole..

"Foreign delegates are impressed by the changes and transformations that have taken place in the republic, the pace of development of the infrastructure," RIA Novosti cites her words. "The bridge across the strait, according to them, is a great spectacle," added Gridchina.

Before the discussion, the guests laid flowers at the monument to the Ukrainian writer Taras Shevchenko, visited the Vera Roik Ukrainian Embroidery Museum, visited the Simferopol Academic Gymnasium. And for lunch they were cooked with traditional Ukrainian borsch, Crimean-Tatar lyulya-kebab and other popular dishes in the Crimea.. Crimea became the Russian region in 2014, reminds RIA FAN. After the coup in Ukraine, a referendum was held in the region, in which more than 95% of the population supported reunification with Russia..