I suggest the State Department, instead of announcement about Crimea, to explain how they ripped Kosovo from the state of Serbia without referendum, with bombs and missiles, wrote Russian Senator Aleksey Pushkov on his twitter, reports Serbian media.

He reminded that Crimea was Russian at a time when America did not exist. He commented the Washington's condemnation of the visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin to Crimea.

The US foreign ministry has previously presented a document titled "Crimea is Ukraine", where Putin, and his visit were condemned, and a Russian claim to the territory was disputed.

After the 2014 referendum, Moscow ''returned'' Crimea under its umbrella, and Ukraine considers this peninsula as its territory.