06:00Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova responded to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s claims on the need to return Crimea to Ukraine, saying that Russian regions were not 'subject to negotiations' during a press briefing on Wednesday.
"We assume that the outlines of any serious, as you say, peaceful settlement on Ukraine, including territorial realities, are determined by this main basic task together with guarantees for Russia's security. At the same time, all the constituent entities of Russia are not subject to negotiations," she said.
The diplomat also claimed that Kiev intends to 'destroy forcibly mobilised Ukrainians' with its 'adventure in Kursk region'.
"This is all so monstrous, anecdotal and tragicomic that it is impossible to imagine anyone could believe in any long-term interests of the Kiev regime in this Russian territory. This is all for the kind of instant bloody PR campaign that Zelensky and those who pay him for this sort of thing need," Zakharova added.
Previously, Erdogan said the return of the peninsula to Ukraine was 'a requirement of international law' and reiterated Ankara's support for resolving the Donbass conflict with respect for Ukrainian territorial integrity while addressing the participants of the fourth Crimea Platform summit via a video message.
A referendum was held in Crimea and Sevastopol in 2014, with 97 percent voting to join the Russian Federation. Ukraine and its Western allies refused to recognise the vote, calling it an 'annexation'.
President Vladimir Putin and officials from Crimea and Sevastopol subsequently signed the Agreement on the Accession of the Republic of Crimea in the Russian Federation, which was ratified by both chambers of the Federal Assembly.
Moscow launched a military offensive in Ukraine in late February 2022 after recognising the independence of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR), claiming that Kiev had failed to guarantee their special status under the 2014 Minsk Agreements, and urging Ukraine to declare itself officially neutral and give assurances that it would never join NATO.
Kiev denounced the Russian action as an invasion. Zelensky imposed martial law throughout the country, announcing a general mobilisation, while the EU and the US imposed several rounds of sanctions on Moscow.
'All constituent entities of Russia are not subject to negotiations' on Ukraine - Zakharova
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova responded to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s claims on the need to return Crimea to Ukraine, saying that Russian regions were not 'subject to negotiations' during a press briefing on Wednesday.
"We assume that the outlines of any serious, as you say, peaceful settlement on Ukraine, including territorial realities, are determined by this main basic task together with guarantees for Russia's security. At the same time, all the constituent entities of Russia are not subject to negotiations," she said.
The diplomat also claimed that Kiev intends to 'destroy forcibly mobilised Ukrainians' with its 'adventure in Kursk region'.
"This is all so monstrous, anecdotal and tragicomic that it is impossible to imagine anyone could believe in any long-term interests of the Kiev regime in this Russian territory. This is all for the kind of instant bloody PR campaign that Zelensky and those who pay him for this sort of thing need," Zakharova added.
Previously, Erdogan said the return of the peninsula to Ukraine was 'a requirement of international law' and reiterated Ankara's support for resolving the Donbass conflict with respect for Ukrainian territorial integrity while addressing the participants of the fourth Crimea Platform summit via a video message.
A referendum was held in Crimea and Sevastopol in 2014, with 97 percent voting to join the Russian Federation. Ukraine and its Western allies refused to recognise the vote, calling it an 'annexation'.
President Vladimir Putin and officials from Crimea and Sevastopol subsequently signed the Agreement on the Accession of the Republic of Crimea in the Russian Federation, which was ratified by both chambers of the Federal Assembly.
Moscow launched a military offensive in Ukraine in late February 2022 after recognising the independence of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR), claiming that Kiev had failed to guarantee their special status under the 2014 Minsk Agreements, and urging Ukraine to declare itself officially neutral and give assurances that it would never join NATO.
Kiev denounced the Russian action as an invasion. Zelensky imposed martial law throughout the country, announcing a general mobilisation, while the EU and the US imposed several rounds of sanctions on Moscow.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova responded to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s claims on the need to return Crimea to Ukraine, saying that Russian regions were not 'subject to negotiations' during a press briefing on Wednesday.
"We assume that the outlines of any serious, as you say, peaceful settlement on Ukraine, including territorial realities, are determined by this main basic task together with guarantees for Russia's security. At the same time, all the constituent entities of Russia are not subject to negotiations," she said.
The diplomat also claimed that Kiev intends to 'destroy forcibly mobilised Ukrainians' with its 'adventure in Kursk region'.
"This is all so monstrous, anecdotal and tragicomic that it is impossible to imagine anyone could believe in any long-term interests of the Kiev regime in this Russian territory. This is all for the kind of instant bloody PR campaign that Zelensky and those who pay him for this sort of thing need," Zakharova added.
Previously, Erdogan said the return of the peninsula to Ukraine was 'a requirement of international law' and reiterated Ankara's support for resolving the Donbass conflict with respect for Ukrainian territorial integrity while addressing the participants of the fourth Crimea Platform summit via a video message.
A referendum was held in Crimea and Sevastopol in 2014, with 97 percent voting to join the Russian Federation. Ukraine and its Western allies refused to recognise the vote, calling it an 'annexation'.
President Vladimir Putin and officials from Crimea and Sevastopol subsequently signed the Agreement on the Accession of the Republic of Crimea in the Russian Federation, which was ratified by both chambers of the Federal Assembly.
Moscow launched a military offensive in Ukraine in late February 2022 after recognising the independence of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR), claiming that Kiev had failed to guarantee their special status under the 2014 Minsk Agreements, and urging Ukraine to declare itself officially neutral and give assurances that it would never join NATO.
Kiev denounced the Russian action as an invasion. Zelensky imposed martial law throughout the country, announcing a general mobilisation, while the EU and the US imposed several rounds of sanctions on Moscow.