Ukraine will return temporarily occupied Crimea by non-military methods.
President Petro Poroshenko said during the 11th Annual Meeting of the Yalta European Strategy (YES), reports GHN based on Ukrinform.
"They say we lost Crimea. No, we have an invasion of Crimea. But Crimea will be again with us. Not necessarily with the military means," Poroshenko stressed.
He noted that Ukraine wins a "democratic-liberal competition for the moods, for the minds of Crimean residents, and expressed conviction that the life standard in Ukraine beyond the administrative border with the Autonomous Republic of Crimea will be much higher against the occupied peninsula, and Ukrainians will live in the non-corrupted and democratic country.
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