AA / London / Ahmet Gurhan Kartal

Britain’s foreign secretary said on Monday that Russia’s recognition of Ukraine’s detached regions as independent states “violates the United Nations Charter” and tarnished efforts to end the conflict in eastern Ukraine.

In a Twitter post, Liz Truss said: “President Putin’s recognition of the ‘Donetsk People’s Republic’ and the ‘Luhansk People’s Republic’ as independent states is a major disregard for commitments made by Russia as part of the Minsk Agreement.” shows”, in the context of the 2014 agreement aimed at ending the conflict in the Donbass region of eastern Ukraine.

Liz Truss said the initiative “represents a new attack on the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, marks the end of the Minsk Process and is a violation of the Charter of the United Nations.”

“This reflects Russia’s decision to choose the path of confrontation rather than dialogue,” he said.

Signaling a unified response to the Kremlin’s decision, she warned, “We will coordinate our response with allies. We will not let Russia’s violation of its international commitments go unpunished.”

Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who spoke to reporters earlier today, said the recognition of self-declared republics in eastern Ukraine would be “a major violation of international law”.

He called the recognition a “gross violation of Ukraine’s sovereignty and integrity”, a denial of the 2014 Minsk agreements on the Donbass, and a “very bad sign”.

*Translated from English by Morad Belhaji

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