Ukrainian Foreign Minister: Kiev appealed to the UN Security Council because of the State Duma's initiative to recognize the LPR and DPR

“Ukraine has officially applied to the UN Security Council with the initiative to discuss the resolution of the State Duma of Russia on the recognition of the so-called.

L / DPR, ”Kuleba said on his Twitter.

He also added that this "undermines the Minsk agreements and the peace process."

The head of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry urged to consider this issue at a meeting on the implementation of the Minsk agreements on February 17.

Earlier, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, commenting on the appeal of the State Duma on the need to recognize the independence of the self-proclaimed Luhansk and Donetsk People's Republics, recalled that there was no alternative to the Minsk agreements.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, commenting on the appeal of the State Duma deputies regarding the recognition of the LPR and the DPR, said that the authorities would act on the basis of "not fully realized opportunities for the implementation of the Minsk agreements."

The Kremlin noted that Putin received an appeal from the State Duma on the recognition of the LPR and DPR and took it into account.