MOSCOW, August 7 (RIA Novosti) - The government of Ukraine will consider the draft proposals imposing sanctions against Russia this Friday, August 8, Ukraine’s Minister of Justice Pavlo Petrenko said.
“A special session of the government will be held Friday to consider our committee’s proposals, the decisions on individual and sectoral sanctions will be made as well,” Petrenko said in an interview with Ukraine TV channel, adding that the sanctions will target both - individuals and companies.
Ukrainian government's Commissioner for European Integration Valery Pyatnitsky said earlier that the list of Russian companies targeted by Kiev will be announced on August 12.
Since mid-April, Kiev authorities have been conducting a special military operation in the east of Ukraine to suppress the independence movement. The violence intensified after the self-proclaimed Luhansk and Donetsk People’s Republics declared independence from Ukraine in May. Moscow has described the ongoing military action as a punitive operation and called for immediate end to bloodshed.
The European Union, the United States, Canada and Japan have compiled sanctions lists against Russian companies, banks, politicians, freezing their bank accounts, banning them entry and refusing to buy Russian goods. The West has repeatedly accused Russia of involvement into the Ukrainian crisis. While Moscow many times stressed that Russia was never involved into the conflict. President Putin introduced counter-measures against the countries that imposed sanctions on Russia, banning imports of agricultural and food products from countries that imposed sanctions on Russia.
