Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze, and Ukraine’s Ambassador to the U.S. Valeriy Chaly met with U.S. Senator Susan Collins from the Republican Party in Washington, where they discussed increasing the sanctions pressure on Russia, the Ukrainian Embassy to the U.S. has reported.
“The Ukrainian side expressed hope for the support of the U.S. Senate on the adoption of additional legislative acts in the near future with the aim of increasing the sanctions pressure on the Russian Federation because of its illegal actions against the Ukrainian state, particularly in the waters of the Azov and Black Seas, and in response to the Kremlin’s recent decision on the issuance of Russian passports to citizens of Ukraine in the temporarily occupied territories of Donbas,” the Ukrainian Embassy to the United States said on Facebook on Tuesday.
The parties also discussed the expansion of programs of military support to Ukraine and assistance in the release of the crews of the Ukrainian Navy ships captured by the border guards of the Russian Federation in the Kerch Strait.
A separate issue of discussion was the “further cooperation of Ukraine and the United States in countering the construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline.”
