MOSCOW (AA): Prime
Minister Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday said he has signed a decree expanding
Russian sanctions against Ukraine.
The new measures ban
export to Ukraine of oil, oil products and coal, he said at a government
meeting in Moscow.
Also, the decree
expands the list of items prohibited for import from Ukraine, he added.
“We are expanding
the ban on the import of certain types of goods to Russia. This measure will
affect Ukrainian machinery, light industry, metalwork, the cost of which last
year amounted to almost $250 million,” he said.
Medvedev also noted
that these measures are retaliatory. Russia and Ukraine have been at
loggerheads since 2014, when Russia annexed Crimea after …read more
Source: The Frontier Post
