Dmitrij Kuleba. Photo: Wikipedia.org.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba said that the vote on the election of members of the State Duma in Crimea and Donbas will not lead to the interruption of diplomatic relations with Moscow.
“Ukraine does not plan to cut off diplomatic relations with the Russian Federation due to the elections in Crimea and uncontrolled territory of Donbas,” he said.
be interrupted in 2014.
Now, according to him, “something megacatastrophic” must happen to return to this issue, because the severance of diplomatic relations is a death penalty.
Recall that today the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine recognized the elections to the State Duma Russia is “illegal” and the elected composition of deputies is “illegitimate”. The statement said that from the point of view of Ukraine's constitution, “the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol are an integral part of Ukraine.” Parliament also called the “legally invalid” involvement of Ukrainian citizens from parts of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions with Russian passports that had been “illegally” issued to them in the elections.