ForMin Odobescu: We’ll continue to support Ukraine in its courageous struggle to fully recover territorial integrity
Romania will continue to support Ukraine „in its courageous struggle to fully recover its territorial integrity,” Foreign Minister Luminita Odobescu said on Wednesday, told Agerpres.
The head of Romanian diplomacy had an online intervention at the third summit of the International Crimea Platform.
She pointed out that 18 months have passed since the beginning of the Russian invasion, but „Russia’s aggression did not begin with the war that started on 24 February 2022, but with the illegal annexation of the Crimean Peninsula in 2014.”
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„Romania will continue to support Ukraine’s independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity within its internationally recognised borders,” Luminita Odobescu said, stressing that Romania has been by the side of its neighbouring country since the first day of the war and will continue to be by its side until „final victory.”
The Romanian official also spoke about cases of human rights violations in Ukrainian territories occupied by Russian forces. „These actions are war crimes,” the minister said.
Odobescu also mentioned „the recent unprovoked attacks on Ukrainian ports on the Danube, very close to the Romanian border” which „once again show Russia’s desire to escalate this conflict.”
„We will stand with Ukraine in its courageous struggle to fully recover its internationally recognised territorial integrity. We will stand by the Ukrainian people and their sovereign right to freely decide their future without outside interference,” she added.
„Donetsk is Ukraine, Herson is Ukraine, Lugansk is Ukraine, Zaporozhye is Ukraine, Crimea is Ukraine,” Odobescu stressed.
