Ukraine is firm on its stand on Crimea, wants Russia to withdraw from all areas: Kuleba
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Kuleba said all regions of his country should be treated equally in dealing with the Kremlin after Russia’s full-scale invasion more than 13 months ago.
Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said on Thursday that his country would not back down from its demand that Russia withdraw its troops from Crimea, among other parts of Ukraine that Moscow recently illegally annexed. Kuleba said all regions of his country should be treated equally in dealing with the Kremlin after Russia’s full-scale invasion more than 13 months ago. “We are united by the United Nations Charter principles and shared belief that Crimea is Ukraine and it will return to Ukrainian control,” Kuleba said in a digital address to a gathering in the Romanian capital Bucharest.
“Every time you hear someone from any corner of the world saying that Crimea is somehow special and shouldn’t be returned to Ukraine, you need to know that Ukraine is clearly The Kremlin wants Kiev to recognize Russia’s sovereignty over Crimea and recognize the September annexation of the Ukrainian provinces of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhya. Ukraine has rejected those demands and said it will not hold talks with Russia until Moscow’s forces withdraw from all occupied territories.
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