The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine expresses its strong protest in connection with another visit of the Russian delegation inconsistent with Kiev headed by President Vladimir Putin to the occupied Crimea.

The text of the official comment was published on the website of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry.

"The Ukrainian side considers this visit and other" trips "of Russian officials to the temporarily occupied Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol as a gross violation of Ukraine's state sovereignty and territorial integrity, cynical and demonstrative disregard of the generally recognized norms of international law by the Russian side," reads the statement..

The Foreign Ministry stressed that it was, in particular, the violation of the UN Charter, the UN General Assembly resolution "Territorial Integrity of Ukraine" and "The State of Human Rights in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and. Sevastopol ", as well as violations of obligations under bilateral and multilateral treaties to which Ukraine and Russia are parties.

"A note of protest was sent to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation," the Ukrainian department.

As reported by the "Observer", the purpose of Putin's trip to the occupied Crimea became known.

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