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Ukraine will not acknowledge the so-called elections in Russia, solidifying Putin’s dictatorship, and nor should the entire international community.
The MFA issued a statement on the official website.
“Ukraine sees no legal basis for recognising him [Putin] as the democratically elected and legitimate president of the Russian Federation,” the Foreign Ministry issued a statement.
The Russian authorities are attempting to give the entire world and its own citizens the illusion of legality for the nearly lifelong stay in power of a person who has turned the Russian Federation into an aggressor state and the ruling regime into a dictatorship, adds the statement.
Russian Federation violated international documents that founded the system of international relations such as the UN Charter, the Declaration on the Principles of International Law, the Geneva Convention on the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, the Final Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, and dozens of UN General Assembly resolutions.
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry emphasized that the electoral process in the sovereign territories of Ukraine temporarily occupied by the Russian Federation—parts of the Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhia and Kherson regions, the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, and the city of Sevastopol— was carried out using threats and blackmail, and towards Ukrainian citizens who live there, and such coercion is a violation of international law.
Putin’s inaugural ceremony will take place tomorrow, May 7. Germany refused to be represented in any way at the event, while France is sending its ambassador to the inauguration.
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