The head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko called punishment against Russia effective mechanism to ensure the implementation of the Minsk agreements.

"We celebrate today that effective punishment, what punishment work punishment is an effective mechanism to ensure the implementation of the Minsk agreements, and we note once again that the Minsk agreement must be implemented in General, rather than select items ", - said the head Thursday during a joint with the Prime Minister presiding in the EU of Luxembourg Xavier Bettel approach to the correspondents in Kiev.

Moscow has stated many times that completely uninvolved in the events in the South-East of Ukraine, does not supply the militia military equipment and ammunition, not a party to domestic conflict and is interested in Ukraine overcame political and economic crisis.

As said not so long ago the head of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, there is no alternative for the settlement of the Ukrainian fall, but the Minsk agreement, but to say all the time that they must obey Russia, is stupid.

Relations between Russia and the West deteriorated in connection with the situation in Ukraine. At the end of July 2014, the EU and the US said the penalties against entire sectors of the Russian economy. In response Russia in the last month of the summer of 2014 limited the import of food items from countries that have imposed against her punishment. At the end of June 2015 in response to the extension of the punishment the authorities of the Russian Federation has decided to extend food embargo until 5 August 2016.

in mid-September, the head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has put into effect a personal punishment against Russia for a period of one year. Sanctions list encompasses 388 individuals and 105 legal entities.

1st Deputy Chairman of the faction "United Russia" in the Duma Franz Klintsevich called the height of absurdity Ukrainian punishment relative to the Russian deputies, reporters, scholars. Ukraine in the person of its current President to the maximum makes it difficult for even the possibility for dialogue between 2 countries, he said.

As noted before, the press Secretary of the President of Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov, Russia was never a supporter of sanctions practice in the Russian capital strongly believe that this practice is absurd, inefficient and is a double-edged sword. Sands drew attention that Moscow has not initiated the entering of punishment and will never initiate.

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