Kyiv: Russia should return Kuban to Ukraine

At a recent briefing, Ukraine’s Minister of Infrastructure, Volodymyr Omelyan, stated that the Crimean Bridge will connect “Ukrainian Crimea” with “Ukrainian Kuban”, UNN reported.

“From a political point of view, I see that this is a bridge that will connect Ukrainian Crimea and Ukrainian Kuban,” Omelyan said. He stressed that Ukraine’s losses from the construction and commissioning of the Crimean bridge are estimated at “tens of millions of hryvnias.”

In May 2017, Omelyan stated that air traffic between Ukraine and Russia could be restored if Russia returns to Ukraine Kuban, the Crimea and the rest of the “Ukrainian territories that had been seized” by Russia over time.