Ukraine’s security service on Thursday said it had banned the last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev for backing Russia’s annexation of Crimea.
Ukraine’s National Security Service (SBU) said the 85-year-old who presided over the breakup of the Soviet Union was barred from entering the country for five years. “For publicly backing the annexation of Crimea, Mikhail Gorbachev is banned from entering Ukraine for five years,” the SBU said on Twitter.
SBU spokeswoman Olena Gitlyanska wrote on Facebook that Gorbachev had been barred “for state security reasons, particularly for his public backing of the military annexation of Crimea”. Russia formally annexed Crimea in March …read more
Source: Daily News & Analysis
