President of Israel Reuven Rivlin and the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko.
"Israel did not recognize the illegal annexation of Crimea and is not going to do either and we have a plan to take the city back from Russia dictator club ," Rivlin said. According to him, Russia violated international law in this matter.
Comment: What a hypocrite. When has Israel EVER had any respect for international law, unless it expressly suits Israel.
"Mr President (of Israel) supported the joint steps aimed at the de-occupation of Crimea. For this plan we will work together in the framework of international organizations on the basis of new international formats, including the format of "Geneva+" with the participation of the guarantors of the Budapest Memorandum, Israel and Ukraine", — quotes "Interfax" from the words of the President of Ukraine.
Poroshenko also invited Israel to participate in the privatization of state-owned assets in Ukraine, which is scheduled for 2016.
Crimea and Sevastopol became part of Russia in March of 2014. The Supreme Council of Crimea and the Sevastopol City Council, in the background of the political crisis and a change of power in Ukraine, adopted a Declaration of independence of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol. The vast majority of voters (96,77%), with a turnout of over 80%, voted for reunification with Russia. The Treaty on the adoption of new subjects into Russia was signed on 18th March 2014. Ukraine, the US, and the European Union refused to recognize the independence of Crimea and its reunification with Russia, and called the Peninsula "occupied" territory.
If there's *any* country that ought to avoid criticizing any other nation's acquisition of territory as allegedly having been illegally done, it should be Israel, since it has stolen much of Palestine.