On November 21, 2013, then-President Viktor Yanukovych suspended preparations for the implementation of an association agreement with the European Union. Arguments in favor of the agreement were outraged by the judgment. As a result, OFW’s (Overseas Workers) Filipinos in Ukraine are entangled and anxious as a result of the escalating trade conflict between other major countries.

Filipinos in Ukraine will not be harmed, according to Foreign Affairs Secretary Teddy Locsin.”I will be on top of it personally,” Locsin stated in a tweet. The country’s top diplomat says he will communicate to ensure Filipinos’ safe exit from the Eastern European country.

Any acknowledgement by Russia of two breakaway regions in eastern Ukraine would be the equal of a threat on the country’s sovereignty, France said on Tuesday.”It would be an impossible situation, representing an attack without weapons and dismantling of the unity and integrity of Ukraine,” Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said after Russia’s parliament requested that President Vladimir Putin recognize the Donetsk and Lugansk districts.