Western leaders warned Russia on Tuesday (23) against any annexation of Ukrainian territory and again expressed their support for kyiv, invaded for six months by forces from Moscow.

The leaders took part in a videoconference as part of the “Crimean platform”, which brings together the main states that support Ukraine and which was created by kyiv before the start of the war on February 24.

French President Emmanuel Macron called on Moscow to “end hostilities” and “withdraw its troops from all Ukrainian territory” as well as “choose diplomacy to rebuild peace”.

“We condemn Russia. We will never recognize any attempt to change the status of any part of Ukraine,” German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said.

Faced with the idea of ​​pro-Russians in the occupied territories to call a referendum of union with Russia, Scholz said that “no sham referendum and other attempts to change the status of parts of Ukraine will not be recognized”.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said Russian President Vladimir Putin “wants to do in all of Ukraine what he did in Crimea”, a peninsula annexed by Moscow eight years ago after a referendum not recognized by either Ukraine nor by Western countries.

“We cannot allow borders to be changed by force of arms. We will never recognize Russia’s annexation of Ukrainian territory,” he added.

Johnson, like his Canadian counterpart Justin Trudeau, promised to maintain his support for kyiv and the policy of sanctions against Moscow “until Russia ends the war and withdraws its troops”.