The Russian prime
minister also declared extension of the ban on imports of certain Ukrainian
goods.
GORKI, April 18.
/TASS/. The Russian government has banned exports of Russian oil and petroleum
products to Ukraine, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said at a cabinet meeting
on Thursday.
"[The Russian
government] bans exports of Russian oil and petroleum products to
Ukraine," the head of the cabinet said.
Medvedev has also
declared extension of the ban on imports of certain Ukrainian goods. "We
are forced to protect our interests and strike back," he said at a meeting
of the cabinet when speaking about Ukrainian restrictions against Russia.
"I have signed a
government decree on that. We are expanding the ban on imports of certain types
of goods to Russia, which will be applied to Ukrainian engineering products,
consumer goods, metal products, the cost of which totaled almost $250 mln last
year," he said.
Source: ITAR-TASS
18-04-2019
