Korotchenko: punishment of Canada against the MOD will not be able to isolate the Ministry
Attempts by Western countries, and among them Canada, to isolate the Russian defense Ministry will not succeed, because now the military Department are actively being worked out new directions of international cooperation, said a member of the public Council under the Ministry of defense of the Russian Federation Igor Korotchenko.
yesterday the government of Canada included in enhanced sanctions List Deputy defense Minister Anatoly Antonov, responsible for international military and military-technical cooperation. He was also included in the augmented sanctions List of the European Union to Ukraine.
"considering that Antonov is responsible for external relations of the Ministry of defence, we can summarize that Canada refuses further military contacts with our country. In this case, the speech about the isolation of the Ministry and the country can not be recent visits by defense Minister Sergei Shoigu in Latin America and Iran show once again about the fact that we will have fresh, more reliable and civilized responsible partners than NATO countries, " said Korotchenko.
The Ukrainian government and the Western countries blame the Russian Federation interference in the internal Affairs of Ukraine in the East in April 2014, the Ukrainian government began a military operation against disgruntled occurred in February coup d'etat citizens of the region. 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, is not a party to domestic conflict and is interested in Ukraine overcame political and economic crisis.
Western countries since March has repeatedly imposed punishment on a number of Russian politicians, businessmen and organizations because of the position of Russia in Ukraine. The last case of the use of such practices began in December limits, when the head of the U.S. announced an economic blockade of the Crimea, and in the sanctions List included a number of famous figures from the Crimea and Eastern Ukraine.
The list of Russian Citizens and organizations, first fell under the sentence, the material of the Fins news