Ukraine cuts ties with Syria after it recognizes separatist republics

KYIV, 30 June 2022, (TON): Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky announced the end of diplomatic ties between Kyiv and Damascus after Moscow ally Syria recognized the independence of eastern Ukraine’s two separatist republics.

The breakaway states of Donetsk and Lugansk, whose independence Moscow recognized in February, are situated in the Donbas region at the center of Russia’s invasion and have escaped Kyiv’s control since 2014.

Syria provoked Ukraine’s ire after becoming the first state other than Russia to recognize the two separatist republics earlier on Wednesday.

Zelensky said “there will no longer be relations between Ukraine and Syria,”

He added that the sanctions pressure against Syria “will be even greater.”

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