Ukraine asks Russia to withdraw troops from its territory, reverse recognition of separatists
Kyiv has called on Moscow to reverse its recognition of separatist territories in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region at an emergency UN Security Council meeting.
“We demand from Russia to cancel the decision on recognition and return to the table of negotiations.
“We condemn the order to deploy additional Russian occupation troops in the territories in Ukraine.
“We demand the immediate and complete verifiable withdrawal of the occupation troops,” Ukrainian UN Ambassador, Sergiy Kyslytsya, told the meeting in New York.
Russian President, Vladimir Putin, earlier signed decrees ordering military forces into Moscow-backed Luhansk and Donetsk after officially recognising their independence.
He also pointed to the similarities of Monday’s decision from Moscow to recognise Luhansk and Donetsk to Russia’s actions in 2008, when the regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia broke away from Georgia.
(dpa/NAN)
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