Ex-President: Kiev Is A Russian City

 Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev recalled the Russian past of the city of Kiev in response to promises repeatedly voiced by top Ukrainian officials to “return” the Crimean Peninsula.

“Sometimes the enemy’s statements need to be answered not only diplomatically or somehow allegorically,” Medvedev wrote on his Telegram channel on Sunday, RT reported.

"Various cockroaches that have been bred in the Kiev insectarium constantly threaten to ‘return Crimea’. Well, their goals are clear: to cheer up the tame insects around and show the insectarium’s owner that they are still very capable of cockroach runs for a morsel of food," he added.

The Ukrainian leadership is in no position to talk about the “return” of Crimea, the former president suggested, explaining that Kiev itself is, in fact, a Russian city.

Medvedev listed “indisputable facts” about the city, stating that Kiev was “the capital of Ancient Rus”, as well as “a large Little Russian city within the Russian Empire”, and “a capital of a republic of the USSR".

In Kiev, “people always thought and spoke Russian. To make it clear about what and where should be returned,” Medvedev, who is now the deputy head of the country’s Security Council, concluded.