russia is once again attempting to rewrite the content of the Budapest Memorandum in order to justify its armed aggression and the violation of Ukraine\u2019s territorial integrity.<\/p>\n
\u25ab\ufe0f russian foreign ministry spokesperson maria zakharova claimed that the 1994 document guaranteed security to Ukrainians but allegedly \u201cdoes not oblige russia to forcibly keep parts of Ukraine\u2019s territory within its composition.\u201d She also stated that Ukraine supposedly lost its territorial integrity due to \u201cinternal processes\u201d and \u201caggressive nationalism\u201d long before the full-scale invasion.<\/p>\n
\u25ab\ufe0f The Budapest Memorandum, signed by Ukraine, russia, the United States, and the United Kingdom, clearly enshrines commitments to respect Ukraine\u2019s independence, sovereignty, and existing borders, as well as to refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of Ukraine.<\/p>\n
\u25ab\ufe0f zakharova\u2019s statement is a fabricated interpretation. The Memorandum obligated moscow not to alter Ukraine\u2019s borders by force. This is precisely what russia violated in 2014 and again in 2022.<\/p>\n
russia invents absurd interpretations of international documents to create the illusion of legal justification for its aggression. moscow is once again manipulating international law in an attempt to evade responsibility for its war of conquest against Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
russia is once again attempting to rewrite the content of the Budapest Memorandum in order to justify its armed aggression and the violation of Ukraine\u2019s territorial integrity. \u25ab\ufe0f russian foreign ministry spokesperson maria zakharova claimed that the 1994 document guaranteed security to Ukrainians but allegedly \u201cdoes not oblige russia to forcibly keep parts of Ukraine\u2019s…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":44044,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","wds_primary_category":932,"footnotes":""},"categories":[932],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}