The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Committee on Foreign Affairs rejected the draft resolution on the severance of diplomatic relations between Ukraine and the Russian Federation. this on his Facebook page . reported People's deputy from the Petro Poroshenko Bloc faction Vladimir Ariev

He said the committee rejected the project by six votes. According to Ariev, six deputies from the BPP and one from the Popular Front voted against the resolution.

“A group of radical and populist deputies suddenly wanted to sever diplomatic relations with the Russian Federation. Precisely at a time when the internal situation is tense. Actually, such a step remains possible, but above all it must be timely!” — he wrote, noting that such a decision must be agreed upon between foreign policy institutions and the government of Ukraine.

“And when they use powerful weapons for shouting and self-promotion, then you can’t call it anything other than stupidity or deliberate sabotage,” the people’s deputy added.

a draft resolution on terminating diplomatic relations with Russia Ukrainian deputies introduced on March 15. Later, the authors of the resolution, Vladimir Parasyuk and Igor Lutsenko, reported that the Rada Committee on Foreign Affairs supported the resolution. The Kremlin called the initiative “bordering on madness.”

In January 2015, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine recognized Russia as an “aggressor country” and the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk republics as terrorist organizations.

The Rada Committee rejected the initiative to sever diplomatic relations with Russia