Former US president: Crimea already wanted to join Russia in 2014

 "A large number of Russian-speaking residents of Crimea were advocating the peninsula's accession to Russia in 2014".This was stated by former US President Barack Obama. for the ideas that Russia represented, even in the Ukrainian parliament there were a number of supporters of Russia, and politics inside Ukraine was more complicated," the politician said speaking on CNN.

He added that he and former German Chancellor Angela Merkel had to attract many Europeans who resisted and called for sanctions against Russia.In early December, Merkel made an equally strong statement in an interview with Zeit, calling the purpose of the Minsk accords an attempt to give Ukraine time to get stronger. According to her, everyone understood that the problem had not been resolved and the conflict in the country was frozen. At the same time, in 2014, NATO could not supply Kiev with weapons to the extent that it does now.