During the signing of the protocol Ukraine was concerned with numerous armed conflicts that took place throughout territory of the recently dissolved Soviet Union on pretence of local inter-ethnic skirmishes such as 1991–1992 South Ossetia War, Transnistria War, and others. Also on 11 January 1992 negotiations between Ukraine and the Russian Federations about the Black Sea Fleet fell through and concurrently with it the Russian parliamentary committees initiated revision of legal grounds of the 1954 Ukase of Presidium of the Soviet Supreme Soviet about transferring of Crimea to Ukraine.