{"id":1138476,"date":"2025-04-27T18:41:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T15:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/?p=1138476"},"modified":"2025-04-25T20:27:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T17:27:11","slug":"lithuanian-president-calls-potential-recognition-of-crimea-as-russian-a-time-bomb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/lithuanian-president-calls-potential-recognition-of-crimea-as-russian-a-time-bomb\/","title":{"rendered":"Lithuanian President Calls Potential Recognition of Crimea as Russian a &#8220;Time Bomb&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lithuanian President Gitanas Naus\u0117da stated that the possible de jure recognition of Russian control over Crimea would be a &#8220;time bomb.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Naus\u0117da&#8217;s statement was reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lrt.lt\/\">LRT<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was his response to recent comments by U.S. President Donald Trump, who said that Crimea should remain Russian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;If we do what is being suggested and recognize Crimea de jure as Russian, it will be a time bomb that will keep exploding again and again,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Naus\u0117da added that first and foremost, Ukraine\u2014which was attacked\u2014should be asked what it thinks about this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Because this is the country that has suffered the heaviest losses, where many people have been affected&#8230; Infrastructure has been destroyed, the economy has been devastated. So don\u2019t they have the right to say an important word about what they think of these proposals?&#8221; he emphasized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier, Zelenskyy stressed that Ukraine will never legally recognize any temporarily occupied territories as Russian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read also:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/trump-statement-about-ending-the-war-between-russia-and-ukraine-in-one-day-was-figurative\/\">Trump: Statement about ending the war between Russia and Ukraine \u201cin one day\u201d was figurative<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lithuanian President Gitanas Naus\u0117da stated that the possible de jure recognition of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":1138477,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,49,36415,36422],"tags":[78],"sources":[],"class_list":["post-1138476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-news-en","category-11473-news-en","category-11473-news-en-3","tag-homepage-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Lithuanian President Calls Potential Recognition of Crimea as Russian a &quot;Time Bomb&quot; 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