The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry summoned a senior Belarusian diplomat to attend a Russia-Belarus regional forum on behalf of the Crimean occupation administration, the ministry said on Thursday.
Kyiv's relations with Moscow soured in
2014 after Russia annexed Ukraine from the Crimean peninsula and supported
pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine's Donbas region.
"Ukraine considers such friendly measures
by Belarus unacceptable, which raises questions about the annexation of
Russian-occupied Crimea and Sevastopol to Ukraine," the ministry said in a
statement.
The ministry said the Belarusian the ambassador assured Kyiv that Minsk's official status had not been changed’ in
support of Ukraine's territorial integrity.
Relations with Ukraine's other and
neighboring country, Belarus, have soured since Kyiv condemned Belarus's August
9 presidential election as neither free nor fair.
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