Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs Pavlo Klimkin has announced his ministry has prepared a package of documents to initiate the procedure for severing the Treaty on Friendship, Cooperation and Partnership with the Russian Federation, which was signed in 1997.

“These documents have already been drawn up, and the entire package [is available]. I can say about this now. This has always been our position, that’s why we’ve worked it out. In the coming days, we will introduce it formally,” Klimkin told journalists on television.