OREANDA-NEWS. Vladimir Zelensky plans to discuss the strategy of returning Crimea during his upcoming visit to Brussels. The details of this strategy were not disclosed, but it is known that the position of the current Ukrainian leadership has remained unchanged: Kiev considers the Crimea to be Ukrainian territory and intends to seek its return. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky during the upcoming visit to Brussels intends to discuss the strategy of "returning" of Crimea with officials of the European Union and NATO, said presidential spokesman Yulia Mendel on the air of the Ukrainian TV channel.

“The administration wants to be transparent, but the administration wouldn't want to talk about any rumors or decisions that may be very sensitive, before this decision is made”, Mendel said, but she also stressed that Zelensky would be visited by Brussels. June 4th. This will be his first foreign visit as president of Ukraine. It clarifies the channel, the head of state, including scheduled meetings with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, President of the European Council Donald Tusk and President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker. Ukrainian leader to visit the city again within the framework of the Ukraine-EU summit.

Zelensky himself expressed his position on the Crimea during the inauguration on May 20, calling the peninsula and the Donbass “Ukrainian land”. He stressed that the state entrusted to him had lost not only territories, but also people. “And today we just have to regain their consciousness. Over the years, the authorities did nothing to make them feel Ukrainians. They aren't strangers, they are ours”, he said at the ceremony. At the same time, the President of Ukraine met with representatives of the White House who arrived at the inauguration.