Pressure and sanctions against Russia should lead to the return of Crimea to Ukraine, as stated by the Ukrainian Deputy Minister on issues of the temporarily occupied territories and internally displaced persons, Yuri Hrymchak in an interview with Apostrophe.

"I believe that at some point keeping the occupied Crimea will become so toxic to the Russian Federation that abandoning it will be a salvation for Russia itself as a state," Hrymchak said.

According to the Deputy Minister, a similar mechanism is applicable in the situation with the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) and the Luhansk People's Republic (LPR).

Earlier the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Thorbjørn Jagland, said that the organization was considering the possible abolition of anti-Russian sanctions that were imposed due to "Moscow's aggression against Ukraine." According to his information, such a decision in the Council of Europe is possible because of fears that Russia will withdraw from this organization in connection with the restrictions. And this, according to the Council of Europe, could be a blow to the protection of human rights in the world. At the same time, Jagland explained that the organization will not change its "principled position" on the Crimea.

"No one wants to give a signal that we are accepting the annexation of the Crimea. It's not a matter of undermining this principled position," Jagland said, adding that the representatives of the Council of Europe should "in the long term plan for a mandate" by the organization, which presupposes "the protection of human rights in Russia, Crimea, and elsewhere on the continent."

  Crimea, Sanctions on Russia, Ukraine

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