Kyiv to ask intl partners to organizer of Duma elections in Crimea on sanction lists

14:32, 19.09.2016 1 min read

Ukraine condemns the conduct of the elections to the Russian State Duma in Crimea and will hand to its international partners a list of people directly involved in the organization of this process in Crimea for their inclusion in sanction lists.

"Ukraine strongly condemns the organization by the Russian Federation of the elections to the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the seventh convocation on the temporarily occupied territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol. [...] Ukraine will hand over to all its international partners, a list of persons directly involved in the organization of the electoral farce in Crimea and those who participated in the illegal elections, for their inclusion in the sanctions lists," the Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Monday.