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Aglobal nuclear war will “immediately” break out should any attempt be made to return Crimea to Ukrainian control, the head of Sevastopol’s Civic Chamber said on Tuesday.

Russian soldiers patrol the area surrounding the Ukrainian military unit in Perevalnoye, outside Simferopol, on March 20, 2014. Russia seized the Black Sea peninsula from Ukraine in 2014©FILIPPO MONTEFORTE/AFP/Getty Images

Alexander Formanchuk, the chairman of Crimea’s Civic Chamber, made the remarks in an interview with state-run news agency RIA Novosti.

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“Any attempt to seize Crimea and return it to Ukraine will immediately escalate into a thermonuclear global conflict. Russia will not forgive this,” he warned.

Formanchuk, who has led the chamber since May 2021, was responding to recent comments made by former