Venezuela Blames U.S., NATO for Ukraine Conflict

Date: 25 February 2022 - 22:36

News ID: ۱۰۰۳۹۶

CARACAS (Dispatches) - Venezuela blamed NATO and the United States for the situation in Ukraine, and said that they had violated the Minsk agreements.
“The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela lamented usurpation of the Minsk accords connected the portion of NATO, encouraged by the United States of America,” the Venezuela’s overseas ministry said in a statement.
“The derailment of these (Minsk) accords has violated planetary instrumentality and created bear down threats against the Russian Federation, its territorial integrity and sovereignty.”
Minsk hosted previous peace negotiations on the Ukrainian crisis.
On Thursday, Putin announced a “special military operation” in Ukraine, stressing that Moscow had “no plans to occupy Ukrainian territory.”
In 2014, Ukraine’s two regions of Donetsk and Lugansk were turned into self-proclaimed republics by ethnic Russians, leading to a bloody conflict between the government forces and the armed separatists.
On Monday, Putin signed a decree recognizing the breakaway Lugansk and Donetsk regions as independent republics. The recognition followed an address in which he referred to eastern Ukraine as “ancient Russian lands” being “managed by foreign powers.”