The Kremlin will disintegrate if Ukraine retakes the Crimean peninsula, which was illegally annexed in 2014. That is what Refat Chubarov, the leader of an ethnic group that has had its home base in Crimea for decades, says in an interview with the Ukrainian radio station Radio NV. Follow all developments in the live blog below.
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LIVE | Crimean leader: ‘Kremlin will disintegrate if Putin loses peninsula’
