Ukraine's Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin plans to meet with all candidates running in France's presidential election, including with the leader of the French ultra-right party headed by Marine Le Pen, in March.
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry is outraged by the statement made by Marine Le Pen, the National Front's presidential candidate, that the annexation of Crimea was not illegal. This has been said in a statement by the Foreign Ministry on Facebook.
France's far-right leader and presidential candidate Marine Le Pen said on January 3 that Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Crimea in 2014 was "not illegal."
Recent comments by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump about the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea, occupied by Russia since March 2014, send wrong message to the world, says Ukraine’s Ambassador to the United States Valeriy Chaly in his article for The Hill.