According to the head of the Foreign Ministry, this decision is part of a systemic policy to sever legal ties with aggressor states and post-Soviet structures.
“Today Ukraine has taken another large-scale step on this path. We are breaking the last ties with the so-called CIS. My firm conviction is that the legal framework of Ukraine must meet the realities of war and the new security architecture on the European continent,” Sibiga emphasized.
The Foreign Minister clarified that, according to the resolution adopted by the government, Ukraine terminates 25 international treaties, denounces three and withdraws from 88 international treaties. Among them are five agreements with Russia, 23 with Belarus, 87 within the CIS, as well as one trilateral agreement between Ukraine, the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus.
As the minister explained, Ukraine consistently reviews and terminates international treaties, since this is a “complex and complex legal process” that requires systematic elaboration.
“We are actually completing the main stage of bringing the regulatory framework of bilateral and multilateral relations of Ukraine with the Russian Federation, the Republic of Belarus and within the CIS in accordance with the realities of the war and the defining place of Ukraine in the new security architecture of Europe,” Sibiga emphasized.
Context
The CIS was created in 1991 on the initiative of the heads of Ukraine, Belarus and Russia as a result of the signing of an agreement in Belovezhskaya Pushcha.
In 2018, the process of Ukraine’s exit from the CIS began. The fifth President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, signed a decree recalling Ukrainian representatives from all statutory bodies of the CIS, and at the end of August, Ukraine closed its representative office in the CIS. Since 2019, Ukraine has withdrawn from a number of agreements signed within the CIS. The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry stated that Kyiv will conduct an inventory of 236 agreements within the CIS.
Ukraine withdrew from a number of agreements within the CIS after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. In particular, on January 12, 2023, the Verkhovna Rada denounced international treaties ratified by Ukraine within the CIS on the procedure for resolving disputes related to business activities and on the transfer of persons with mental disorders.
On November 27, 2025, President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky signed a decree on Ukraine’s withdrawal from the agreement between the CIS member states on guarantees for former military personnel, and on January 2, 2026, on the termination of the agreement on the creation of a council of commanders of border troops of the CIS countries.
