The Ukrainian head Petro Poroshenko said that Kiev in the near future will impose penalties relative to citizens of Russia relating to the separation of the Crimea And the Donbas. According to Tuesday's online edition, Poroshenko announced the introduction of penalties in the process of his working trip to Donetsk region. "I can say that in the near future will be the decision of the Council (Council of national security And defence - ed.), expanding the penalties with respect to certain Russian Residents who actively participated in the occupation of the Crimea And aggression against Ukraine in the East. And there will be measures that will be implemented And the issue of arrest of certain assets And arrest accounts, " said the head. Ukrainian law provides for the introduction of relatively Russia More than twenty types of penalties, including termination of transit of energy resources, entered into force September 12, 2014. The document, which was adopted by the Parliament on August 14, creates a legal mechanism for imposing economic And prohibitive measures on legal And natural persons of the Russian Federation. in September of last year the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has prepared a list of personal And economic penalties with respect to Russia And its people And gave it to the Council of national security And defense. In the sanctions list of the Cabinet includes more than 200 Russian organizations And more than 1,000 Residents of the Russian Federation. The national security Council was obliged to approve the list And give it to the President for signature. However, until now this was not done. Crimea became a Russian region after last year's March referendum, in which a Large number of people at that time still Ukrainian autonomy, do not recognise the legitimacy of the February coup in Ukraine, voted for the accession of the Russian Federation. Ukraine considers the Crimea her, but at the time occupied territory. The Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation has stated many times that the inhabitants of the Crimea in a democratic way, in full accordance with international law And the Charter of the United Nations voted for reunification with Russia, respecting And accepting that choice And that choice is the reality that ought to be considered. Crimean region, part of the RSFSR, was in February 1954 transferred to the Ukrainian SSR by the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.