The Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe has approved the resolution on “The Destabilizing Military Build-Up by the Russian Federation Near Ukraine, in the Temporarily Occupied Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the City of Sevastopol, Ukraine, the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov,” according to Mykyta Poturaev, a Ukrainian lawmaker and the head of the Verkhovna Rada delegation in the OSCE Parliament Assembly.
The resolution condemns human rights violations in occupied Crimea and areas of the Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts, as well as the ongoing militarization of the Crimean Peninsula and the illegal granting of Russian passports to Ukrainian citizens in the occupied territories.
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It also denounces Russia’s recent attempts to block the Kerch Strait and the Sea of Azov after Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law allowing the Russian National Guard to “block the territories and waters of protected objects to stop attempts at illegal intrusions” on July 1 which goes against international law.
The Russian delegation left the session in protest of the resolution’s placement on the agenda.
Poturaev noted that the resolution was approved “despite fierce opposition from the Russian delegation and the delegations of countries under Russia’s influence.”
