The Ukrainian Ministry of Information Policy is furious after a regional TV channel from Melitopol showed Crimea as part of Russia, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) reported.

During its broadcast MTV-plus [not to be confused with the US Music Channel MTV] showed a map of Ukraine in which the Crimean Peninsula was missing, clearly indicating that the region is no longer under Kiev's jurisdiction.

The Ministry of Information Policy wasn't happy about that and asked the channel to explain its action, the source said.

"Tomorrow we'll send an official letter from the Ministry to the editorial office of the TV Channel, requesting an explanation as to why they used such a map. We'll demand that the channel return Crimea back to the Ukrainian map," said Emine Dzheppar, Advisor to the Minister on Crimean information policy, as cited by RFE/RL.

Last month the Bulgarian TV channel BNT1 angered Kiev after it showed Crimea as belonging to the Russian Federation. When the Ukrainian Embassy in Sofia sent a protest letter to the channel, BNT1 said it was due to a "technical mistake" that their map showed Crimea as Russian.

Similar things have already happened in the past with a Polish TV channel, French atlas maker Larousse and even USA Today, one of the biggest American newspapers, all publishing maps with Crimea as part of Russia, which made the Ukrainian government furious.

In March 2014, the Crimean parliament declared independence from Ukraine and decided to reunify the peninsula with the Russian Federation following a referendum in which more than 96 percent of residents voted to join with Russia.