Currently, due to the suspension of air traffic with a number of foreign states, citizens of the Russian Federation temporarily staying in third countries are having difficulty returning to the Russian Federation by air. At the same time, foreign citizens transiting through the territory of the Russian Federation to their homeland face similar problem.
Tskhinval is closely monitoring the current situation in the Donbass in the light of the special military operation launched by the Russian Armed Forces on February 24 to protect the DPR and LPR, the purpose of which is to ensure the security of the republics, as well as protect the rights and interests of the population living there.
On February 24 the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia Dmitrii Medoev played host to the new Head of the ICRC Representative Office in the Republic of South Ossetia Dragoslav Blazhevich.
The Republic of South Ossetia expresses its support for the decision of the Russian Federation to conduct the special military operation to protect the residents of Donbass from current nationalist regime of Kiev.
On February 24, an enlarged format meeting of the Security Council of the Republic of South Ossetia, organized in connection with the situation in the Donbas and the special military operation announced by Russian President Vladimir Putin, was held under the chairmanship of the President of the Republic of South Ossetia A.I. Bibilov.
South Ossetia welcomes and expresses full solidarity with the decision of the President of the Russian Federation V. V. Putin on the recognition of state sovereignty and independence of the Donetsk People’s Republic and the Lugansk People’s Republic.
South Ossetia welcomes the recognition of the sovereignty of the fraternal republics of Donbass. This is an important and responsible decision of the Russian leadership.
The statement of Alexander Lukashenko, President of the Republic of Belarus, on the possibility that Minsk recognizes the independence of the Republic of South Ossetia and the Republic of Abkhazia did not gounnoticed in South Ossetia.
The statement of Belarusian President has reasonablegrounds, and it is not only the obvious established legal international situation related to the existence of the Union State of Russia and Belarus, which implies political obligations, including implementation of a coordinated foreign policy.
Recently, the promotion of additional Russian military forces to combat duty on the territory of Belarus has been widely discussed, and especially the statement of the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko about the country’s readiness for war on the side of Russia. The situation for IA REGNUM was commented by the Minister of South Ossetia Dmitrii Medoev.
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia Dmitrii Medoev spoke in an interview to the Information Agency «Res» about the current situation in Ukraine and possible provocations in South Ossetia.
By order of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs dated January 10, 2022, a citizen of the Republic of South Ossetia and the Republic of Turkey Hosity Burhan (Canpolat Burhan) was appointed Plenipotentiary Representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia in the Republic of Turkey.
Brief biographical note:
On January 24, a working meeting of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia D.N. Medoev with the Secretary General of the Eurasian People’s Assembly A.Yu. Belyaninov took place in Moscow.
