Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmitry Kuleba. File photoMOSCOW, Mar 18 Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba called on Twitter to exclude Russia from the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) amid the situation around Ukraine.
"So as Russia continues to commit barbaric atrocities, it must be excluded from all civilized organizations and platforms. We call on all FATF member countries to exclude Russia and immediately add it to the FATF" black list,” Kuleba wrote.
Earlier, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine called for Russia to be excluded from the UN Security Council. In turn, British Home Secretary Priti Patel said that, together with colleagues from the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, she sent a letter to Interpol calling for a decision to suspend Russia's access to the organization's system. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine early in the morning in Thursday, 24 February. 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 there is no question of the occupation of Ukraine, the President of Russia emphasized.