Portal Ukraine Kyiv February 26, 2024
Members of the International Crimean Platform will never recognize Russia’s attempt to annex the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, as well as the Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia regions of Ukraine.
This came in a joint statement by the Crimean International Platform on the occasion of the Day of Resistance to the Occupation of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol.
“We will never recognize Russia’s attempt to annex the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, as well as the Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia regions of Ukraine, which blatantly violates the principles and purposes of the Charter of the United Nations and constitutes a direct threat to international security with serious consequences for international law and order.” The Autonomous Republic of Crimea Self and the city of Sevastopol, as well as Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk and Luhansk regions are Ukraine,” the document says.
The authors of the statement reaffirmed their strong condemnation of the so-called referendums and so-called elections, past and future, conducted by the Russian occupation administration in the temporarily occupied Crimean Peninsula and parts of the Kherson, Zaporizhia, Luhansk and Donetsk regions of Ukraine.
“These decisions are invalid and have no legal force,” the participants in the Crimean International Platform stressed.
They also strongly condemned the illegal mobilization campaign in the temporarily occupied Crimean peninsula that disproportionately targets the Crimean Tatars, the continued resettlement of Russian citizens in Crimea as an unacceptable attempt to change the demographic structure of the peninsula, and Russia’s continued attempts to integrate the temporarily occupied territories into Ukraine, Including the Crimean Peninsula, in the Russian Federation forcibly and illegally, and Russia’s decision to transform the temporarily occupied Crimean Peninsula into a dense military site in the Black Sea and use it to conduct military operations in the region.
“We reaffirm our support for the post-war reconstruction of Ukraine, including the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, in order to ensure the well-being and prosperity of the Ukrainian nation. We are aware of the current and future challenges and reaffirm our readiness to strengthen political, diplomatic, financial, humanitarian and other support to Ukraine.” Until the full restoration of its sovereignty and territorial integrity within internationally recognized borders,” stated the participants of the International Crimean Platform.
Ukraine celebrates the Day of Resistance to the Russian Occupation of Crimea on February 26. The Ukrainian Crimea was occupied for 10 years. Its capture by the Russian army in February 2014 was the beginning of Russia’s war against Ukraine.
