National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine has expanded sanctions list against the Russians. The decision was taken at a meeting of the National Security Council, held on Wednesday, September 2.
«National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine supported the proposal of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine and the Security Service of Ukraine and decided to expand the list of individuals and legal entities of the Russian Federation and other countries, were subject to the sanctions “, – said in a press release of the National Security Council after the meeting.
The new defendants in the Security Council of Ukraine did not call. However, emphasizes that these persons “engaged in terrorist activity”, “participating in the financing of terrorism” as well as “support annexation by the Russian Federation of the territory of Ukraine».
The report also stresses that the decision to extend the sanctions list due “the need to respond effectively to the continuing armed aggression against Ukraine, the Russian Federation».
In addition, at today’s meeting of the National Security Council approved a new draft of the Military Doctrine of the country. The document, in particular, calls Russia “a military adversary of Ukraine” and “determine the conditions of the liberation of the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine.” Furthermore, the doctrine of “the defining characteristics of an armed conflict in Ukraine, including those inspired by foreign countries».
«Military Doctrine of Ukraine is a conceptual document that analyzes the essence and nature of modern armed conflicts, sets out the principles and ways of preventing them occurrence, preparation of the State to the threat of military conflict, the use of military force to protect state sovereignty, territorial integrity and other vital national interests “, – underlined in the message of the National Security Council.
The President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, speaking before the meeting, He emphasized that the novelty of the Military Doctrine is to abandon the policy of non-alignment and the restoration of the strategic course of Euro-Atlantic integration, as well as in the shift in the conduct of military conflicts on the integrated use of military and non-military instruments: economic, political, information and psychological. “It fundamentally changes the nature of warfare. This is actually what we call a hybrid war “- Poroshenko quoted by his press service.
In January this year the Verkhovna Rada has recognized Russia as” an aggressor country. ” Later, in late March, a group of parliamentary deputies introduced a bill, which supposes introduction of penalties for public denial “of Russian aggression against Ukraine.” The document proposed to introduce a punishment for denial of aggression in the form of 3-5 years in prison, and if the offense is committed by a representative of the authorities, the sentence will be 10 years.
Moscow has repeatedly stated that it is not a party to the conflict in Ukraine and the Crimea to Russia was the realization of the right of local people to self-determination.
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