“We have concluded that the principle of self-determination is not applicable to the situation with Crimea and Donbas. In this situation, the principle of territorial integrity prevails”, - russian media quote a statement by UN Secretary-General António Guterres.
Former russian president Dmitry Medvedev reacted angrily and, as always, rudely to this, in the style of “who gave the secretary-general and the Office of Legal Affairs the right to interpret the UN Charter”. He recalled that “only the International Court of Justice of the UN is specifically vested with this right”.
OstroV previously noted that putin and his team, arbitrarily interpreting the UN Charter, carried out the occupation of Crimea and Donbas and also unleashed a war against Ukraine. In March 2022, the kremlin ignored the ruling of the International Court of Justice of the UN, to which Medvedev now appeals, and which found no justification for the start of russian aggression against Ukraine and ordered russia to immediately cease the invasion.
It was previously reported that Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Heorhii Tykhyi reacted to the outrage of the russian federation. “Someone should tell these idiots that the UN has already answered: in October 2022, 143 members of the UN General Assembly rejected russia’s illegal seizure of Ukrainian territory”, - he wrote on his page on X.