Ukraine's ownership of Tuzla Island has never been called into question or discussed during border delimitation talks with Russia, Oleh Voloshyn, director of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry's Information Policy Department, told Interfax on July 13.
“The Tuzla issue was not even discussed at negotiations over all of
these years. The fact that the island belongs to Ukraine has never been
called into question,” he said.
The talks, the completion of which was announced by the Ukrainian and
Russian presidents on Thursday, addressed exclusively the delimitation
of water sections of the border in the Azov and Black Seas and the
Strait of Kerch, Voloshyn said.
The sides agreed the rules for using the strait, he added, refusing to offer further details.
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and his Russian counterpart
Vladimir Putin announced earlier that the two countries had finished
talks on the delimitation of the Azov and Black Seas and the Strait of
Kerch.
