Washington does not recognize redrawing of the established international borders, and the decision of the Russian leadership is illegal, Geoffrey Pyatt said as quoted by Interfax Ukraine.
‘Crimea is part of Ukraine’, the diplomat stressed during the conference call on Friday, when asked to comment on Russian President Putin’s respective decree.
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