Moscow does not intend to bear responsibility for what is happening in the occupied parts of eastern Ukraine, Kremlin’s spokesman Dmitriy Peskov said, answering an UNIAN correspondent’s question Jan 19.
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine banned legal entities and individuals who are residents of the aggressor state, Russia, from participating in privatization biddings in Ukraine, according to an UNIAN correspondent.
President Petro Poroshenko signed Law "On Amendments to the Law of Ukraine "On Touring Events in Ukraine", earlier adopted by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, regarding tours of artists who are citizens of the "aggressor state".
The Kremlin did not like the new law of Ukraine on de-occupation, where Russia is called an aggressor state, and it believes that this document contradicts the Minsk agreements, the Kremlin's press secretary Dmitry Peskov said, answering a question from an UNIAN correspondent in Russia.
It would be unacceptable for the United Nations to adopt a resolution on the UN peacekeeping mission in Donbas branding Russia an “aggressor state,” that’s according to Vladimir Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov, an UNIAN correspondent in Moscow reports.
Ukraine’s Ambassador to the EU, Mykola Tochytskyi, in his op-ed published by Euroactiv, in his response to a last week’s piece “Here’s what a realistic Ukraine settlement may look like” by Josh Cohen, first carried by Reuters, says the aggressor must not be appeased.
Head of the Security Service of Ukraine Vasyl Hrytsak has told a Kyiv briefing Saturday he believes that it is necessary to introduce criminal liability for people’s deputies and politicians for their trips to Russia, 112 Ukraine TV channel reports.
Representative of the Ukrainian president in the Verkhovna Rada, Iryna Lutsenko, has told TV Channel 5 that the draft law on Donbas reintegration, in accordance with international norms, will determine that the Russian Federation is an aggressor state in relation to Ukraine.