[caption id=”attachment_81615″ align=”alignleft” width=”300″] Pro-Russian people celebrate in the central square in Sevastopol, Ukraine, late Sunday, March 16, 2014. Russian flags fluttered above jubilant crowds Sunday after residents in Crimea voted overwhelmingly to secede from Ukraine and join Russia. The United States and Europe condemned the ballot as illegal and destabilizing and were expected to slap sanctions against Russia for it. (AP Photo/Andrew Lubimov)
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POLITICO — Russia’s ambassador to the United States says Russia won’t leave Crimea because it’s now Russian territory again.
Sergey Kislyak pushed back at a question on ABC’s “This Week: from host George Stephanopoulos, asking him about recent developments.
“What kind of pullback from Crimea are you talking about? We are now in the territory of the Russian Federation,” Kislyak said.
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