MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Ukraine's Foreign Ministry has sent a note to the Russian Foreign Ministry protesting the trip of Medvedev to Crimea on April 27. The Ukrainian ministry described the visit of the Russian prime minister as a deliberate act "aimed at destabilizing the bilateral relations."
"I appreciate that the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry is watching my movements around the country and is interested in the development of the Russian Crimea. I think that Russia's Foreign Ministry could comment on the trips of the Ukrainian leadership to [Ukraine's] Lviv and Kharkiv regions as well," Medvedev wrote on his Facebook page on Thursday.
On Sunday, Russian President Vladimir Putin called Crimea's reunification with Russia 60 years after it was transferred to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic "an element of historic justice."
