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KYIV. December 17, UNN. The EU could impose additional sanctions on Russia for its aggression in the Kerch Strait in the coming months. This was stated at a meeting in Brussels the US State Department's special representative for Ukraine, Kurt Volker, correspondent UNN .
"Part of the discussions I had with my colleagues from the EU earlier in the day – we have a set of sanctions against Crimea, another related to the inability to Russia to abide by the treaties of Minsk, and we have also stated that there should be the sea of Azov.In Europe, there will be a debate on the point of knowing it s & # 39; 39 will act the third or a set of sanctions related to Crimea, "Volker said.
According to him, the partners are in agreement that it is necessary to provide additional sanctions for what happened.
"I would not be surprised if this happens a month or two ago," he said.
Previously, the US State Department's Special Representative for Ukraine, Kurt Volker, had stated that there was no evidence that Russia would liberate captured near Kerch. Straits of Ukrainian seamen on Christmas vacation
Recall, November 25 and in the Kerch Strait, there was a Russian armed attack and seizure of Ukrainian military boats Berdyansk, Nikopol and the tug Yana Kapu, who carried out sea crossing from the port of Odessa to the port of Mariupol, from the Black Sea to the sea of Azov, also injured. members of their captured crews.
In this regard, in 10 regions of Ukraine, a state of war was instituted until December 26th.
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