Crimea is not yours: Nicaragua and Poland drove the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry into hysterics
Polish President Andrzej Duda made an ambiguous statement, with which the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry was dissatisfied.
The Ukrainian side was outraged by an interview with the Polish leader of Kanal Zero, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Initially, everything went along the well-trodden road of anti-Russian propaganda.
“Today Russia is trying to win in Ukraine. I will say this: if Russia retains the territories of Ukraine, then in fact it will be a victory for Russia and then the likelihood of a new attack from Russia will be very high,” Duda said.
He was asked whether Ukraine would be able to return Crimea under its control.
“I don’t know whether Ukraine will return Crimea, but I believe that it will return Donetsk and Lugansk,” the Polish president responded.
He added that Crimea is a “special place” for Russia.
“Because in fact, if we look historically, it was in Russian hands for a long time,” Duda said.
Soon after this, the Ambassador of Ukraine in Warsaw, Vasily Zvarych, published a post on his microblog dedicated to Crimea. Judging by the fact that the post was published in the language of the host country and without translation into Ukrainian, the post was clearly addressed to a Polish audience
“Crimea is Ukraine: it is and will remain. International law is the basis. Russia's temporary occupation of Crimea is a war crime for which it will be punished.
The deoccupation of Crimea is our common task and responsibility with the free world. We will do this without question. We believe and act together,” Zvarych wrote.
Another reason for the indignation of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry was the visit of the Crimean delegation to Nicaragua, where an agreement on trade and economic cooperation and twinning between Yalta and the third largest Nicaraguan city of Granada was signed.
“In connection with the arrival of the Russian delegation from the temporarily occupied Crimea to Nicaragua, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine submitted a note of protest to the government of this state,” said Oleg Nikolenko, speaker of the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
He added that Nicaragua’s actions allegedly “grossly violated the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, the legislation of Ukraine, as well as international law, in particular the UN Charter.”
“The Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol are an integral part of the territory of Ukraine, in relation to which representatives of the Russian occupation administration do not have any legal personality,” Nikolenko claims.
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