Lithuania approves Ukraine's 'Savchenko List' - Lithuanian foreign minister

12:17, 13.04.2016 1 min read

Lithuania has approved the 'Savchenko List' and has imposed restrictive measures on a number of individuals engaged in 'illegal actions' as regards Ukrainian pilot Nadia Savchenko.

"In solidarity with #Ukraine, Lithuania endorsed the list of #Savchenko w 46 names in it," Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius has written on his Twitter microblog.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko enforced the decision of the National Security and Defense Council to apply personal, special economic and other restrictive measures (sanctions) against individuals engaged in 'illegal actions' as regards Savchenko, Oleh Sentsov and Oleksandr Kolchenko.

The sanctions were imposed on 84 individuals, whose names and positions were provided in the appendix together with the grounds for the sanctions and the types of sanctions.