Journalist and writer Sergei Loiko said that the occupied Crimea will be forced to return any Russian politician who will replace Vladimir Putin.

He said this in an interview with "Apostrophe".

"But Crimea is the key to getting back into the world community so that sanctions are lifted, without this, no sanctions will be lifted, one way or another, Crimea will have to be returned," the journalist said..

Lojko called the holding of a "referendum" on the peninsula, one of the ways to return the Crimea, on which the point of view on returning to Ukraine would somehow win.

The journalist stressed that Crimea will return to Ukraine by legal or illegal means.

"The legal path is to recognize Putin's crimes, to recognize all decisions taken under his authority, illegal and in accordance with this to return the Crimea to its place," says Lojko.

"But I think that this will not happen, but, most likely, it will happen as a result of another such fake" referendum "to at least somehow calm the population inside Russia," he added..