There are no doubts about which country Crimea belongs to and should not be: this is Russian territory. This was stated by the former Prime Minister of Slovakia Jan Charnogursky. He insists that the peninsula entered Ukraine during the years of Soviet power by mistake, legally it was wrong. "Whose? Russian, of course. Russian, because historically it belonged to Russia - I will not talk about the legal mistakes that were made when Crimea entered Ukraine, "Charnogursky said in an interview with Russia 1. From noted that the majority of the inhabitants of the peninsula always considered themselves Russians, and the referendum in 2014. it only confirmed. On the basis of this, Charnogursky called on European countries opposing anti-Russian sanctions to actively defend their position..

Separately, Slovakia, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Cyprus, Italy, Austria have repeatedly expressed that the EU should change its attitude towards Russia and take a course towards rapprochement with it. But in order to achieve this, they should unite and come out from a consolidated position before voting in the EU on the next extension of sanctions, Charnogursky said. Crimea legally reunited with Russia in spring 2014. by referendum results. "For" expressed 96% of voters of the peninsula, reminds RIA FAN. In Ukraine and a number of Western countries refuse to recognize the will of the inhabitants of the Crimea.