Britain warned on Thursday that Moscow’s formal recognition of pro-Russian separatist regions in eastern Ukraine would constitute a “new attack on the sovereignty and territorial integrity” of the former Soviet republic.
The foreign minister said in a statement that if President Vladimir Putin accepts the Russian parliament’s request to grant this recognition, it also means that Russia has preferred “the path of confrontation over the path of dialogue” to defuse tensions over Ukraine. The Office, Liz Truss.
Duma’s request [cámara baja del Parlamento] He stressed that Putin’s recognition of the independence of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions in Ukraine is a blatant disregard for the Minsk agreements.
Those agreements, signed in 2014 and 2015 internationally mediated, sought to end the fighting in the Donbass region, which includes the pro-Russian breakaway provinces of Donetsk and Lugansk, and constitute so far the only framework for a peaceful solution to the conflict.
“We urge Russia to put an end to its destabilizing patterns of behavior and to honor the commitments it has freely signed, including the Minsk agreements,” the British head of diplomacy continued.
The Duma’s request on Tuesday came amid rising tensions over suspicions in the West that Russia is preparing to invade Ukraine.
Since Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014, Ukraine’s military has faced pro-Russian separatists in the east, in a conflict that has killed more than 14,000 people.
During this period, Moscow issued Russian passports to hundreds of thousands of residents of that region.
US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken also estimated on Wednesday that the Duma’s proposal “would constitute a serious violation of international law.”
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