The US ambassador to Kyiv tells Kyiv’s “Pravda” newspaper today that “we believe that in the end, Crimea will be returned to Ukraine. But when is also a correct question. Possibly,” she continues, “my answer won’t seem a happy one, but the majority in the West see this process as analogous to the positive example of the Baltic countries.”
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Paul Goble: Baltic recovery of independence a model for Crimea, US ambassador to Kyiv says
Crimea will be returned to Ukrainian rule in much the same way and for many of the same reasons Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania regained their independence because the West never recognized their occupation by the USSR as legitimate and because the three peoples remained committed to national sovereignty, Marie Yovanovitch says.
