Commander of the German Navy: Crimea will never be Ukrainian
Crimea will never be Ukrainian again. Its status as a Russian region is already an indisputable fact.
This opinion was expressed by the Commander of the German Navy, Vice Admiral Kay-Achim Schönbach, during a conference of the Defense Research Institute M. Parrikar in India, discussing the situation around Ukraine.
During the discussion of the candidacies of states wishing to join the North Atlantic Alliance, a high-ranking German military officer said that Georgia meets all the parameters, but it would be unwise to accept it into NATO.
The vice admiral also noted that New Delhi and Berlin should work more closely with Moscow, which could become a strong ally in the confrontation with China. The German military believes that bilateral agreements between states are ineffective, so countries should unite in closer associations.
Schönbach suggested that there would be a large continental armed conflict. True, in his opinion, in the coming years it can not be expected. Most likely, it will happen in ten or even twenty years. By that time, according to the German Vice Admiral, a critical mass of unresolved conflicts will have accumulated in the world, both in Europe and in Asia. And these conflicts can turn out to be interdependent both in the military-political and economic terms.
A referendum on joining the Russian Federation was held in Crimea in March 2014. More than 96 percent of the citizens of the peninsula and more than 95 percent of the inhabitants of Sevastopol voted for this decision.
Many German journalists criticized the commander of the country's navy, stating that Russia "may perceive his words as legitimizing the actions committed in 2014 by the leading EU countries."
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