Russia map with occupied Crimea erased from sculpture in Turkey / Photo from Facebook/Emine Dzheppar
Ukraine s First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Emine Dzhaparova (Dzheppar) has said a map of the Russian Federation with Ukraine s Crimean peninsula seized by Russia in 2014, which was engraved on a sculpture on display at an international art festival in Turkey, has been erased.
The author of the map was a female citizen of the Russian Federation, the official said on Facebook.
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