Ukraine will withdraw from seven agreements with Russia and Belarus

The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has approved the country's withdrawal from eight agreements with Russia, Belarus and the CIS. This was announced on May 21 by the representative of the Ukrainian government in the Verkhovna Rada, Taras Melnichuk, in his Telegram channel.

"[The Cabinet of Ministers] has approved a draft law On the termination, withdrawal and denunciation of international treaties of Ukraine concluded by the Government of Ukraine with the governments of the Russian Federation, the Republic of Belarus and within the framework of the Commonwealth of Independent States," he wrote on the channel.

In particular, the agreements between Ukraine and the Russian Federation on the mutual settlement of debts for supplied energy resources from 1997, on the terms of reserve supplies and payment for Russian gas to Ukraine in 2001, on the provision of a state loan to finance the completion of nuclear power plants in Ukraine from 2002, and many other agreements will cease to be in effect.

In addition, Ukraine plans to withdraw from the agreement with Belarus on the phased abolition of exemptions from the 2004 free trade regime, as well as from the agreement on conditions for supporting the development of cooperation between manufacturing enterprises of the CIS member states.

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Information about the meeting level was not disclosed.

Earlier, on May 16, Melnichuk announced the termination by Ukraine of the agreement with Russia on cooperation in the customs sphere. The document has been in effect since June 1993.