Turkey cannot recognize the decision by the Donetsk and the Lugansk People’s Republics as well as the Zaporozhye and the Kherson Regions to join Russia, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Saturday. Turkey “did not recognize Russia’s annexation of Crimea in an illegitimate referendum in 2014 and ...
Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky said on Friday that Kyiv was requesting fast-track NATO membership after Russia formally annexed four Moscow-held regions of Ukraine. ‘We have already proven our compatibility with Alliance standards… We are taking a decisive step by signing Ukraine’s application for accelerated accession to NATO,’ Zelensky said in ...
