KIEV, May 24. /TASS/. The newly-appointed chief of Ukraine’s General Staff, Ruslan Khomchak, appointed by President Vladimir Zelensky two days ago, believes that Kiev had lost Crimea long before 2014.

In an interview to the news agency UNIAN he shared his recollections of a holiday he once spent in Crimea, which he described as a shocking experience.

"I bought a voucher to a health resort in Alupka," Khomchak said. "When the holiday was over, I told myself I would never go there again, because what I’d seen was really shocking. It was a sad ruin of what was left of the Soviet Union… I kept asking myself: ‘Is this Ukraine?’"