"Aggressive Lawlessness": MFA Comments on Russian State Duma Law on Deploying Army to Other Countries
Kyiv • UNN
The Russian State Duma has authorized Putin to use the army abroad to protect Russians. Ukraine's Ministry of Foreign Affairs called this law an act of "aggressive lawlessness."
The law adopted by the State Duma of the Russian Federation, which allows Russian dictator Vladimir Putin to send troops to other countries, shows the real face of the regime in Moscow to the entire world. This was stated by the spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Heorhii Tykhyi, reports UNN.
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According to him, this is particularly important against the backdrop of the legal launch of the Special Tribunal for the crime of aggression against Ukraine.
"This decision can be characterized in two words: aggressive lawlessness. By granting himself the unlimited right to use Russian occupation forces outside the country under the pretext of supposedly 'protecting Russian citizens,' Putin is effectively admitting that aggression has become the norm of Russia's state policy,"
He recalled that, addressing the Reichstag in February 1938, German Fuhrer Adolf Hitler justified aggressive plans to occupy the Sudetenland with similar arguments: the "terrible living conditions of German compatriots in Czechoslovakia."
"It seems that Russian parliamentarians were inspired by those times when creating their legislative act,"
He added that the new Russian law changes nothing for Ukraine, which has been defending itself against Russian aggression for over 12 years, but it demonstrates the true essence of the regime in Moscow to the world.
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In April, the Russian State Duma passed a bill that allows the use of armed forces abroad by decision of the President of the Russian Federation to protect Russians facing judicial prosecution.