Xinhua News Agency
May 21, 2015
Ukraine withdraws from 5 military accords with Russia
KIEV: The Ukrainian Parliament on Thursday voted to unilaterally scrap five agreements with Russia on military cooperation, the Parliament’s press service said.
The lawmakers voted to withdraw from the agreement on cooperation in military intelligence and in mutual protection of classified information.
In addition, the parliament also backed Ukraine’s withdrawal from the agreements that regulate military transportation between Ukraine and Russia and payments for those transportation.
The Ukrainian lawmakers have also approved a bill to cancel the intergovernmental agreement between Kiev and Moscow on military transit to Moldova.
Under the deal on military transit, Russian troops had the right to travel through the Ukrainian territory to the location of their peacekeeping mission in Moldova’s breakaway region of Transnistria.
Russia has not yet officially commented on the potential impact of Kiev’s move on the bilateral relations.
Vladimir Komoedov, head of the defense committee in the Russian Parliament, told the Interfax news agency that Moscow hopes to find a compromise with Kiev over the deal on military transit to Moldova.
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