The adviser to the Ukrainian Presidency warns that the war will only end with the "end of the Russian occupation of Crimea"

MADRID, 13 Ago. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The advisor to the Ukrainian Presidency, Mijailo Podoliak, declared this Saturday that peace with Russia will only come when Moscow ends its "occupation of the Crimean peninsula", annexed by Russian forces in 2014 in an incorporation later ratified by a large majority in a referendum that neither the United States nor the European Union recognize.

"Russia started the war against Ukraine in 2014 by seizing Crimea. It is clear that the war must end with its liberation," he tweeted.

Podoliak himself acknowledged on Friday that the peace negotiations with Russia are stuck and the only contacts between negotiators from both countries are limited solely to the humanitarian field.

Podoliak has also called for "legal punishment for the initiators of this so-called 'special military operation,'" using Russia's term for the invasion.

"Everything else is going in circles," he added in his message, posted on his Twitter account.