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Kiev [Ukraine]: Ukraine has decided to terminate the 1997 Russian-Ukrainian Friendship Treaty in the wake of the Kerch Strait incident with President Petro Poroshenko signing law number 206 to terminate the treaty on Monday. “Ukrainian law No.206 on the termination of the Treaty on Friendship, Cooperation, and Partnership Between Ukraine and the Russian Federation has been signed,” Poroshenko announced on Monday. The United States of America, meanwhile, has extended its support to Ukraine and called for Russia to return the vessels and crewmen to Ukraine. In worsening relations between the nations, martial law was enforced along Ukraine’s border with Russia for a month starting on November 28. While Ukraine states that two of its small gunboats and one tugboat were attacked by Russia when they entered the Kerch Strait, the Russian Foreign Ministry states that Ukraine provoked the country by crossing the Russian maritime border despite Russia’s warning to stop..