Kremlin: new Ukrainian sanctions against Russia would be a violation of international law
The imposition of sanctions against Russia by Ukraine will be considered “a blatant violation of rules of international law,” stated the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova.
“The package announced by the Kyiv regime can be compared with the “Magnitsky list”, another attempt to impose unilateral coercive measures that are contrary to international law and the practice of civilized international relations,” TASS cites Zakharova as saying.
Earlier, Ukrainian …
Ukrainian prosecutors asks for 15-year sentence for Yanukovych
The Military Prosecutor's Office of the Central Region of Ukraine asked the court to sentence the country’s ex-President Viktor Yanukovych to fifteen years imprisonment on charges of state treason, Channel 112 Ukraine reports.
“I ask the respected court to find Viktor Fedorovych Yanukovych guilty on all the charges proceedings and to sentence him to 15 years imprisonment,” stated prosecutor Maksym Krym during the court debate.
The defense was outraged with the speeches of prosecutors' …
Estonia approves €190 million construction project of the border with Russia
The Estonian Government finally approved the €190 million construction project on the border with Russia, ERR news outlet reports. The project is scheduled to be completed in 2026. Estonia had decided in 2015 to modernize the infrastructure of its border by constructing sections of fencing, patrol path, barriers to animals, gates, border markers and the like, but had not gotten budget approval for a long time.
“We will immediately start calling for bids for the construction of four parts of …
Muzhenko: There are more than 30,000 Russian soldiers in the Donbas
Currently in the Donbas there are roughly 32,000 people belonging to the regular armed formations of the Russian Federation. In 2014-2015, the mentioned formations were reformatted into the first and second army corps, said Ukrainian Chief of General Staff Viktor Muzhenko in an interview with BBC News Ukraine.
“We are saying that there are regular Russian military groups there, reformatted as early as the end of 2014 and in 2015 into the first and second army corps. The total number of these …
Latvian Foreign Minister calls on Russia to release imprisoned filmmaker Sentsov unconditionally
Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkēvičs urged Russia to immediately release convicted Ukrainian filmmaker Oleh Sentsov without preconditions.
"I call on Russia for the immediate and unconditional release of unlawfully convicted Ukrainian film director Oleh Sentsov. His hunger strike lasting more than 90 days causes deep concerns for his health,” Rinkēvičs wrote on Twitter. The Russian commission rejected two earlier requests for pardon from his mother and from Archbishop Kliment of …