President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy has submitted to the Verkhovna Rada a bill to terminate 15 international treaties of Ukraine in the field of private law with the Russian Federation and ten with Belarus.

"The draft Law ... proposes to terminate the operation of a number of international treaties of the Hague Conference on Private International Law, the Council of Europe and the United Nations in relations with the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus, as well as a bilateral agreement between Ukraine and the Republic of Belarus on the transfer of persons sentenced to imprisonment for later serving their sentences," the explanatory note to the presidential bill registered under No. 0298 on Monday, January 6, reads.

In particular, it concerns the suspension of the operation in relations between Ukraine and the Russian Federation and Belarus of the Convention on the Service Abroad of Judicial and Extrajudicial Documents, the Convention on the Receipt of Evidence Abroad in Civil and Commercial Matters, the Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, the European Convention on the Extradition of Offenders, the European Convention on Mutual Assistance in criminal cases, the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, the UN Convention against Corruption and other documents.

"The invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation in 2014, and subsequently a large-scale invasion with the support of the Republic of Belarus, the refusal to recognize the sovereign existence of Ukraine as a state, numerous violations of the principles of international law against Ukraine and its citizens radically changed the circumstances under which consent to the application of these treaties was given, therefore it is a weighty reason for stopping their operation in bilateral relations with these states," the explanatory note says.