Ukraine is withdrawing from 116 agreements within the CIS
This was announced by Foreign Minister Andriy Sibiga.
According to him, Ukraine must ‘sever the last legal ties’ binding it to Russia and Belarus.
As a result of this step, Ukraine has terminated 25 treaties, denounced three, and withdrawn from 88 international agreements. Of these, five relate to the Russian Federation, 23 to Belarus, 87 within the CIS, and one trilateral treaty between Ukraine, the Russian Federation and Belarus.
In February, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed decrees withdrawing from 31 international treaties within the CIS. Furthermore, 14 draft laws on the termination of 74 international agreements have been registered in the Verkhovna Rada.
The CIS is a regional international organisation established in December 1991 following the collapse of the USSR to regulate relations between the former Soviet republics. It currently comprises nine post-Soviet states: Azerbaijan, Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
Ukraine did not sign the CIS Charter, so de jure it was not a member state of the Commonwealth, but held the status of a founding state and a participating state of the CIS.
In 2008, Georgia withdrew from the CIS (following the war with Russia), and in 2018, Ukraine did so. In January 2026, Moldova began the process of withdrawal.
