Belgium’s Minister for Foreign Affairs Hadja Lahbib expressed regret over the circumstances of her visit to Crimea as she spoke with her Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba on the sidelines of the Gymnich meeting in Prague on Wednesday.
The enemy is forming large convoys of military vehicles in Crimea and sending them towards the Kherson region, with Ukrainian forces striking bridges so that this equipment does not get closer to the front line.
The Russian Federation is deliberately shelling the corridors for the IAEA mission to reach Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in order to direct it through the temporarily occupied territory of Crimea and Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
It is necessary to continue to insist that Crimea is Ukraine, just as Donetsk and Luhansk are Ukraine, and that every part of the currently occupied Ukrainian territory is Ukraine.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky is confident that after de-occupation, Crimea will become part of the European Union together with Ukraine and will receive many opportunities for development.
Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Oleksiy Danilov has said that the issue on the agenda is the demilitarization of Crimea and its subsequent de-occupation.
In Crimea, Russian occupation authorities abducted Appaz Kurtamet, 20, a resident of Kherson region’s Novooleksiiivka village. His whereabouts have been unknown for the past three weeks.
Donetsk and Crimea legally have the same status as Mariupol or Melitopol. They are Ukrainian territories occupied by the Russian army and are subject to liberation.