Russia considers it appropriate to recognize the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine and the Armed Forces of Ukraine as terrorist organizations. “Nowhere in the world should they be treated as an adequate armed unit existing in the international legal field,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
The statement added that the decision to recognize them as terrorists is a matter of “political consensus” and not “a matter of law’s enforcement” The statement was published on the website of the Russian Embassy in London.