28 Jul 2016 18:41

Kyiv wants Crimean sanctions to be extended to Russia's Southern Federal District

KYIV. July 28 (Interfax) - The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry is hoping the sanctions imposed on Crimea will be extended to Russia's Southern Federal District that it became part of on Thursday following the Russian president's decision.

"One could reason that the sanctions currently in effect in the occupied Crimea, that serious partners such as international organizations and states would extend [them] to the same Southern Federal District of Russia," Ukraine's Deputy Foreign Minister Sergiy Kyslytsya told journalists in Kyiv on Thursday.

The Foreign Ministry has expressed its resolute protest over such a decision, and insisted that Crimea remains a Ukrainian territory, he said.