The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry is hoping the sanctions imposed on Crimea will be extended to Russia's Southern Federal District that it became part of on July 28 following the Russian president's decision.
“One could reason that the sanctions currently in effect in the occupied Crimea, that serious partners such as international organizations and states would extend [them] to the same Southern Federal District of Russia,” Ukraine’s Deputy Foreign Minister Serhiy Kyslytsia told journalists in Kyiv on July 28.
The Foreign Ministry has expressed its resolute protest over such a decision, and insisted that Crimea remains a Ukrainian territory, he said.
