KIEV (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 24th February, 2021) Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba urged the EU to impose sanctions on Russia for what he called violations of human rights in Crimea.
Earlier, following a Brussels meeting of EU foreign ministers, a political decision was made to expand anti-Russian sanctions for the arrest of Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny. According to European foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, the sanctions list should be agreed within a week.
"We positively assess the EU's decision to apply sanctions against the Russian Federation in response to the arrest of Alexey Navalny, but I took the opportunity to reaffirm to my Lithuanian counterpart my deep conviction that the EU's human rights sanctions mechanism should be applied to violators of human rights in occupied Crimea," Kuleba said after a meeting with Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis.
Landsbergis said that during the discussion of the extension of sanctions by the EU, it was noted that this would be done if Kiev provided evidence of human rights violations in Crimea and Donbas.
Earlier, the Russian Foreign Ministry warned Brussels against introducing new sanctions against Russia and said a proportionate response would follow.
