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Ukraine's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has resolutely condemned a visit of France's parliamentarians to the Russia-occupied Crimea.

“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine strongly condemns the visit of the French MPs to the Autonomous Republic of Crimea occupied by the Russian Federation,” the ministry said in a statement on July 29.

“In spite of numerous warnings by the Ukrainian side, some French politicians have defiantly violated Ukrainian legislation as well as international law, having neglected the official position of their own state that remains committed to defending Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity,” the statement said.

The ministry says it considers the actions of those politicians as a manifestation of deliberate support to the Russian Federation’s aggression against Ukraine, their endorsement of the Kremlin’s policy of human rights infringement in the occupied Crimea.

A group f 11 French MPs led by Thierry Mariani, the head of a French parliamentary delegation, arrived in Crimea on Friday, July 29. They are being accompanied by head of the Russian State Duma committee on CIS affairs Leonid Slutsky.