Vitaly Sayenko16:07, 05/06/24

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine declares that it has no grounds for recognizing Vladimir Putin as the democratically elected and legitimate president of the Russian Federation. According to the statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on May 7, Vladimir Putin will be inaugurated in Russia. 

“In this way, the Russian government is trying to create for the whole world and its citizens the illusion of legality of the almost lifelong stay in power of a person who turned the Russian Federation into an aggressor state, and the ruling regime into a dictatorship,” the statement said .

At the same time, as Ukrainian diplomats emphasize, during the so-called March “elections”, the Russian Federation violated the provisions of numerous international documents, which are the basis of the modern system of international relations. It is primarily about the Charter of the United Nations, the Declaration on the Principles of International Law, the Geneva Convention on the Protection of the Civilian Population in Time of War, the Final Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, as well as dozens of resolutions of the UN General Assembly.

At the same time, the illegal organization of the so-called election process in the sovereign territories of Ukraine temporarily occupied by the Russian Federation – parts of the Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhya and Kherson regions, in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol – with the deliberate involvement of threats and millions of Ukrainian citizens who live in the temporarily occupied territories or were forcibly relocated to the territory of the Russian Federation were blackmailed into participating in it.

“Such actions of the Russian Federation, despite warnings from authoritative international institutions, once again prove that its leadership does not recognize its responsibility and is not going to stop the illegal, unprovoked and unjustified full-scale armed aggression against Ukraine, which has been going on for more than two years and is causing numerous human casualties and destruction,” the statement said. 

In addition, resorting to propaganda and manipulation, the Kremlin regime uses voter participation and voting results to justify a military invasion of Ukraine and an aggressive policy towards other states.

“Based on the above, as well as taking into account the current warrant of the International Criminal Court for the arrest of Vladimir Putin, Ukraine does not see any legal grounds for recognizing him as the democratically elected and legitimate president of the Russian Federation,” the statement emphasized. 

Also, it is noted that the recent resolutions of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe No. 2540 (2024) of April 17 and the European Parliament of April 25 No. 2024/2665(RSP) confirm the ineligibility of holding so-called “elections” in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, their undemocratic nature on territory of the Russian Federation and actually deny the legitimacy of their results.

“We call on foreign countries, international organizations and the public to follow this example, not to recognize the results of the Russian pseudo-elections and the legitimacy of the Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, to further oppose the destruction of the rule of law and universally recognized democratic values ​​organized by him, as well as to continue effective support of the people of Ukraine in the fight against Russian aggression , which poses a threat to European and world security, peace and stability,” the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. 

(C)UNIAN 2024