EU urges Russia to stop making absurd claims about being "victim"

This is reported by Ukrinform with reference to the European Union's statement "On the aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine", delivered during a meeting of the OSCE Forum for Security Cooperation in Vienna.

"The Russian delegation here and at other international forums should stop its absurd statements that it is a "victim". Russia is the aggressor, its troops are deployed on the territory of another sovereign state. And not the other way around," the statement said. 

The statement added that there is no doubt that Russian aggression is illegal under international law.

"Like the vast majority of our colleagues at this table, we condemned and will condemn in the strongest possible way this outrageous violation by Russia of international law, the UN Charter, and the principles and obligations of the OSCE," they added.

The Kremlin underestimated the tenacity and determination of Ukraine and the Ukrainian people in protecting their Motherland, their freedom, and their European future. 

Therefore, they, together with their international partners, decided to support Ukraine by providing it with the means for self-defense, by Article 51 of the UN Charter, and fully support President Zelenskyy's Peace Formula.

The European Union points out that Russia must immediately stop the atrocities it is committing in Ukraine, and that Putin's statements threatening the international community with unprecedented consequences for supporting Ukraine have not intimidated anyone.

• On February 1, Ukraine's representative to the Parliamentary Assembly of the European Council, Yevheniya Kravchuk, spoke on Espreso's Spotlight Ukraine program about the PACE tribunal for the Russian and Belarusian leadership and whether Putin will be brought to justice in The Hague.