Donetsk. File photoZURICH, Feb. 22 Switzerland, in a statement by the Foreign Ministry on Twitter, called Russia's recognition of the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics a gross violation of international law and calls for abandoning this decision, the country's Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (MFA) said in a statement .
"The recognition by Russia of certain regions of the Lugansk and Donetsk regions of Ukraine as independent states is a gross violation of international law, the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine and the Minsk agreements. Switzerland calls on Russia to fulfill its international obligations and reverse its actions", the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
The situation in the Donbass has escalated in recent days, the DPR and LPR have announced a lot of shelling by the Ukrainian security forces. The leadership of the DPR and LPR announced the temporary evacuation of citizens to the Rostov region in connection with the threat of Ukraine's invasion. It primarily concerns women, children and the elderly. As stated by the head of the DPR Denis Pushilin, President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky will soon order the military to launch an offensive in the Donbass, to implement a plan to invade the DPR and LPR. On Saturday, February 19, the leaders of the DPR and LPR signed decrees on general mobilization. On Monday, after an extraordinary large meeting of the Security Council, Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed the citizens of the Russian Federation and stated that he considers it necessary to make a decision to immediately recognize the sovereignty of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics. He noted that the world prefers not to notice the horror and genocide in the Donbass, not a single day goes by without shelling, killings of civilians, the blockade does not stop. As the President stated, in case of further bloodshed in Donbass, the entire responsibility will be on the Kiev regime. /02/2d0c7ca61dcb26617df153cc0c7704f1.jpg» />»For Russia, these are citizens, people, Russians.» How Moscow recognized the republicsPublished: Nikita Stoma