Recital 4

(4) On 24 February 2022, the President of the Russian Federation announced a military operation in Ukraine, and Russia’s armed forces began an unprovoked and unjustified military aggression against Ukraine. That illegal war of 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 Charter of the United Nations (UN), which is a fundamental rule of international law, and of the other principles of the Charter of the UN (UN Charter).

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-10-17 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.