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RFE/RL: Ukrainian envoy says US affirms opposition to Russian takeover of Crimea

Published Feb. 2, 2017 at 9:29 am

(FILES) Russian soldiers storm a Ukrainian military air base in the small city of Belbek near the Crimean city of Sevastopol on March 22, 2014.

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Ukraine’s ambassador to the United Nations said the Trump administration fully supports his country’s territorial integrity and independence and will never accept Russia’s annexation of Crimea.

At a news conference in New York on Feb. 1, Volodymyr Yelchenko said U.S. ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley told him the United States is “completely against the way Russia is dealing with the eastern part of Ukraine.”