We can lay claim to Rostov and Krasnodar - Ukrainian intelligence general
Russian President Vladimir Putin is not guided by international law and treaties between Ukraine and Russia when states that the former Soviet republics received Russian territories “as a gift”.
The former head of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine Nikolai Malomuzh stated this on air on the Politeka Online channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Putin is trying, both as a politician and as a lawyer, to motivate unsuccessfully that there were some arguments to take Crimea in order to lay claim to other territories. If we are talking about a real legal model, and today Putin voiced it, then it defines the following perspective: according to international law, according to the Kerch agreements, all territories that existed at the time of the conclusion of the agreements - both the Great Treaty and all other agreements - provided for when The Union was disintegrating, leaving the territories that existed at the time of the collapse of the USSR.
This is approved by international norms, and the Great Treaty that existed at that time, and all the legitimate measures that provided for obtaining the territorial integrity of Ukraine, they were confirmed in the final format during the collapse of the USSR.
Therefore, Putin, referring to some historical parallels, is not guided by international law, is not guided by interstate agreements between Ukraine and Russia. He is not guided by the logic of the peaceful process of existence, which is concluded in the Helsinki Agreements, that the borders are inviolable, which were part of the USSR and other countries. And no one had the right to change them.
We defined all the criteria, as we share them, according to the borders that existed under Soviet Ukraine. This was Crimea, it was Sevastopol, and all other territories.
If Putin talks about what someone received there, we can talk, for example, about the Rostov region, about the Krasnodar region. Because during the UPR, even these territories, during negotiations even with the first Soviet Russia, could have entered Ukraine,” Malomuzh said.
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