MOSCOW, January 2. /TASS/. Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky signed a decree withdrawing the country from the 1992 agreement that established the Council of Commanders of Border Troops of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).

"I decree to discontinue [the country’s] membership in the decision on establishing the Council of Commanders of [CIS] Border Troops that was signed in the city of Moscow on July 6, 1992," reads the decree published on the president’s website.

The document instructs the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry to notify the CIS Executive Committee of the decision.

The Ukrainian leadership regularly announces its termination of agreements signed with Russia, Belarus and Syria as well as those inked with other former Soviet republics as part of the CIS.