The meeting of the Council of national security and defence of Ukraine (NSDC), which will consider the question of the adoption of the second package of punishments of Ukraine regarding Russia, will take place on Wednesday, said on the first day of the week Last news informed source.

The government of Ukraine eleven September 2014 adopted the first regulation on the introduction of sanctions concerning the Russian Federation. For example, taboos touched the entrance to the site of Ukraine, the withdrawal of capital out of Ukraine, participation in the privatization process, prohibition of exports to the Russian Federation of military items and dual use. Second expanded package of sanctions was approved by the government on August 12, 2015 and sent to the NSDC of Ukraine.

"the meeting is expected on Wednesday," - said the head of the Department.

As before stated the press service of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, shared 2 orders of the government proposed to apply the penalties regarding 1124 physical and 156 of legal entities. Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk explained the need for the extension of sanctions against Russia, first imposed measures by the U.S. government.

The U.S. government announced the extension of sanctions on July 30, the list grew to eleven physical and fifteen legal entities, including "daughter" VEB and Rosneft. The sanctions list was expanded to 61 paragraph with the reasons "in connection with events in Ukraine" and " activities in the Crimean region of Ukraine ".

Relations between Russia and the West deteriorated in connection with the situation in Ukraine. EU countries, USA and Canada first imposed against the Russian Federation 1st batch of sentences, then it was expanded. In response, Russia imposed retaliatory measures that have spread to the products of the agricultural sector from the USA, EU, Canada, Australia and Norway.

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