Recital 4

(4) On 24 February 2022, the President of the Russian Federation announced a military operation in Ukraine, and the Russian armed forces began an unprovoked and unjustified attack on Ukraine. That military aggression is a blatant violation of the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine, as well as a violation of the prohibition on the use of force enshrined in Article 2(4) of the United Nations (UN) Charter, which is a peremptory rule of international law, and of the other principles of the UN Charter.

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