Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has announced that Russia did not assume obligations under the Budapest Memorandum to recognize the “coup” in Ukraine, and accused the “Ukrainian coup plotters” of violation of the integrity of Ukraine.
“The Budapest Memorandum contains one single legal obligation regarding Russia, the U.S. and the UK – it stipulates that no force with the use of nuclear weapons will be applied to Ukraine, which is free from nuclear weapons. It is the only legal obligation of 1994, enshrined in the Budapest Protocol,” Lavrov said, answering the question of an UNIAN correspondent on where exactly it was written in the Minsk agreements and the Budapest Memorandum about the need to “send people to solve military issues in Donbas”, as well as “to protect Russian-speakers” in Donbas and Crimea, as earlier stated by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
