The Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs reacted to the draft law submitted to the State Duma of the Russian Federation, which concerns the "illegal" transfer of Crimea from the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic to the Russian Federation.
A draft law was submitted to the State Duma of the Russian Federation on invalidating the decision of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on the inclusion of Crimea in the Ukrainian SSR in 1954. The document is published on the official website of the department.
The authors of the draft law were Russian deputies from "Edynoi Rossii" Konstantin Zatulin and Serhiy Tsekov. According to them, the decision to transfer the peninsula was allegedly made "without taking into account the will of the Russian people."
The explanatory note states that the document is aimed at "cleansing the legal heritage" of Russia from "invalid acts that had no legal basis." The authors of the draft law also claim that after the adoption of the relevant law, it will allegedly become more difficult for Ukraine's allies to support Kyiv in its quest to liberate Crimea.
The publication Sota notes that over the past seven years, Kostyantyn Zatulin has three times offered to recognize the transfer of Crimea to the Ukrainian SSR as illegal.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine called the submission to the State Duma of the Russian Federation of a draft law on declaring "illegal" the decision of the Soviet authorities to transfer Crimea to the Ukrainian SSR "a worthless attempt by the Russian dictatorship to legitimize its own gross violations of international law."
The agency emphasized that earlier Moscow legally recognized the borders of modern Ukraine both at the bilateral and multilateral levels, but now it is violating its obligations.
As noted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the aforementioned draft law shows once again that the Russian Federation is aware of the inevitability of the liberation of the peninsula.
"Caught in a lie and compromised hundreds of times, the Russian government can continue its propaganda as long as it wants, in particular under the guise of legislation, but this will not change the reality recognized by the world community: Crimea is Ukraine," the ministry said.
