13:46 01.03.2016

Ukraine calls on international community to put pressure on Russia until Donbas and Crimea de-occupied

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Ukraine calls on international community to put pressure on Russia until Donbas and Crimea de-occupied

Ukraine has called on the international community to put as much pressure as possible on Russian Federation and to reserve sanctions until Donbas and Crimea are de-occupied, Ukrainian Foreign Ministry reported.

"Russia fulfilled none of its commitments in line with the Minsk Agreements. Russia and Russia-governed militants continue military provocations, also using weapons, which should be pulled out under control and monitoring of OSCE: multiple rocket launcher systems, self-propelled artillery, 82 mm and 120 mm mortars," reads a statement of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry released by its press service on Monday.

The foreign ministry said that Russian troops in Donbas continue rotation, trainings and supplies via the non-controlled parts of the border, while OSCE SMM even now has no access to all the territories controlled by Russia and militants.

"Russia and its puppets constantly hamper liberation of over 130 Ukrainian hostages keeping them in inhuman conditions, torturing and threatening with a death penalty in line with Criminal Code of USSR," reads a document.

Besides, the diplomats reiterated about political prosecutions of citizens of Ukraine and Russia's unwillingness to liberate political prisoners Nadia Savchenko, Oleh Sentsov, Oleksandr Kolchenko and others.

Moreover, the ministry pointed out that Russia and militants block supplies of Ukrainian and international humanitarian aid to civil population and hamper work of the international humanitarian organizations, such as Red Cross.

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