Ukraine has announced a transport blockade of those areas in the east of the country that are currently occupied by Russian-backed separatists. “It will be in place until the occupiers return stolen Ukrainian industry to Ukrainian jurisdiction,” Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko told the country’s national security council in Kyiv.
Many economic links have been preserved between the occupied areas that are dominated by heavy industry, particularly coal mining and metallurgy, and government-held Ukraine despite a three-year conflict.
But the new measures appeared to amount to a full-blown trade ban.
National Security and Defence Council head Oleksander Turchynov stated that all rail and road …read more
Source: EU Today
