Ukraine terminates over 100 CIS agreements - foreign minister

MOSCOW. March 26 (Interfax) - Ukraine has suspended 116 agreements with the Russian and Belarusian governments and members of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Ukrainian media said, citing Foreign Minister Andrei Sibiga.

"I am positive we should sever the remaining legal connections we once had with Russia, Belarus and the CIS," the media quoted Sibiga's statement on a social network.

Ukraine is suspending 25 agreements, denouncing three, and withdrawing from 88, including five with Russia, 23 with Belarus, 87 with the CIS, and a Ukrainian-Russian-Belarusian agreement, he said.

The recent orders of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky on the withdrawal from 31 CIS agreements and 14 bills registered in the Ukrainian parliament to terminate 74 agreements de facto finalize the main stage in reconciling Ukraine's agreements with realities of the crisis period that "defines the place of Ukraine in the new security architecture in Europe."