Waves on the Black Sea. File photoMOSCOW, Mar 2Ukraine will ban entry into the territorial sea and Ukrainian ports of ships flying the Russian flag and Ukrainian ships into Russian ports, the Ukrainian Ministry of Infrastructure announced on its website.
" An administrative document is being prepared regarding the prohibition of navigation in the territorial sea of Ukraine, as well as entry into the seaports of Ukraine: ships flying the flag of the Russian Federation; courts, the owners, participants (shareholders, members) or ultimate beneficiaries of which are citizens of the Russian Federation, legal entities registered in the territory of the Russian Federation, as well as individuals and legal entities against which sanctions have been applied (in accordance with the law of Ukraine & # 34; On the sanctions")", the message says.
Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine early in the morning on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, the civilian population is not in danger. With the support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive. But the occupation of Ukraine is out of the question, the President of Russia emphasized.