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The head of the British Foreign Ministry, Boris Johnson, published an article devoted to the fourth anniversary of the annexation of Crimea to Russia. In it, he called for "resolutely and deliberately to resist Russia" and cautiously cooperate with it

British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson wrote an article on the four-year anniversary of the operation to join the Crimea to Russia. The article "Four years of illegal annexation of the Crimea" is published on the website of the British Foreign Ministry.

In it he refers to the information that was sounded in the film "Crimea. Way to the Motherland ", which was released in 2015. Johnson, in particular, recalled the story of President Vladimir Putin that the final decision to join the Crimea was taken at a meeting with the president on the night of February 22, 2014.

"Vladimir Putin officially annexed the Crimea to the Russian Federation on March 18, 2014. Four years after this event, we must remind ourselves of what happened, and redouble our determination to uphold our values ​​and uphold international law, "Johnson called.

According to him, the annexation of Crimea was an annexation and the first violent redrawing of the European border since 1945. "In the course of this process, Russia has violated so many international agreements, that enumeration of all of them is a problem," the minister stated. He also recalled Moscow's breach of its obligations under the Budapest Memorandum of 1994 and about the downed Malian Boeing MH17 flight under Donetsk.

"We all have to resolutely and deliberately resist Russia. This means maintaining our sanctions related to Crimea against Russia as long as the region remains under the control of the Kremlin and maintaining further sanctions while the Minsk Agreements in the east of Ukraine remain unheeded, "Johnson said.

In the final part of the article Johnson said that the West should "firmly and purposefully interact with Russia," while noting that "there is no contradiction between dialogue and deterrence." The

Our motto with Russia should be "to participate, but be cautious," - concluded Johnson.

Andrei Kondrashov's film about the Crimea's entry into Russia was shown on "Russia-1" on March 15, 2015. The authors of the film recorded a long interview with Vladimir Putin on the "hot pursuit" of Ukrainian events. The president, in particular, described how Russian special services participated in the flight of Viktor Yanukovych from Ukraine: "I invited the heads of our special services, the Defense Ministry, to the Kremlin, set them the task of saving the life of the president of Ukraine, he would simply be destroyed."

Putin called the decision to join the Crimea forced: "We have never thought about the exclusion of the Crimea from Ukraine until the moment when these events began, a coup." In addition, Putin told about the actions of "polite people" in the Crimea, noting that their location on the peninsula was legal - under an international treaty with Ukraine, Russia could have 20 thousand military personnel on the territory of the Crimea.

The film was then watched by more than 7 million Russians.

Reference: https://www.rbc.ru/politics/23/02/20...794707e4bd1926