Yesterday evening, after Vladimir Putin’s televised address, the Secretary General of the Council of Europe and the President of the Parliamentary Assembly each issued a statement condemning the recognition of the “so-called peoples’ republics” of Donetsk and Lugansk by the Russian Federation.
In it, Marija Pejčinović Burić and Tiny Kox denounced the “unilateral violation” of the Minsk agreements and - like Luigi Di Maio, Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Chairman of the...