"Crimea is Ukraine" says US; Russians bring up Kosovo

"Crimea is Ukraine" says US; Russians bring up Kosovo

"I propose to the (US) State Department, to, instead of making statements about Crimea, tell how they were, without any referendum, ripping Kosovo apart from Serbia with bombs and missiles. And Crimea was Russian even when the United States did not really exist - they only managed to illegally and with arms in hand secede from Britain. A worthless document," Pushkov wrote.

He was referring to a document the US State Department published earlier, entitled, "Crimea is Ukraine." Sputnik is reporting that the text condemns the visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin to that peninsula, while Russian claims to this territory are considered false.

It is also stated that Crimea's residents voted in the referendum "under scrutiny by heavily armed Russian troops."