FAREED ZAKARIA: You want the United States — you want United States and Britain to guarantee the independence of Ukraine, including Crimea? Does that mean you want America to help in getting Russian forces out of Crimea?
VITALI KLITSCHKO: Yes, of course. It’s the main point right now the Russians have to put — take away their Russian forces from Crimea. It’s the main point. It’s Crimea, Ukraine territory. It’s — if we talk independence of Ukraine, it’s all military forces have to remove from Ukrainian territory. It’s crystal clear.
FAREED ZAKARIA: You know, a lot of Russians say that Crimea is really originally part of Russia and that it would be okay if Crimea were to go to Russia. Do you believe that would be okay? Would it be acceptable to the Ukrainian people to — for Crimea to become part of Russia?
VITALI KLITSCHKO: It’s not acceptable. Crimea always was a part of Ukraine’s country and right now Russia try to create new territory. And it’s all situations, what happens right now is Crimea create not from Ukraine, not in Crimea.
(This exchange took place on Fareed Zakaria GPS on Sunday, March 2nd, 2014. The excerpt above is from the transcript provided by CNN).