KIEV (Sputnik) — Ukraine will impose countermeasures against Russia the day after Moscow's restrictive measures come into effect, Ukraine's Minister of Infrastructure Volodymyr Omelyan said Monday.
"From our side, this decision [about countermeasures] will be imposed on the next day after… these measures will be put into practice," Omelyan told reporters.
On Sunday, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed an amendment to the decree on providing economic safety and Russian national interests, adding Kyrgyzstan to the active legislature, stipulating that Ukrainian goods may be transferred to Kazakhstan only under certain circumstances. The decree was also prolonged till the end of 2017. The Ukrainian government issued a statement saying that Kiev had prepared countermeasures.