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Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba considers the application of sanctions against him by the Russian Federation as revenge for the Crimean platform.

“Russia promised that it would take revenge on me for the Crimean platform. It took revenge. But that will not stop us. Crimea is Ukraine,” Kuleba wrote on his Twitter account on Aug. 21.

By the decree of the government of the Russian Federation of Aug. 20, 2021, changes were made to the so-called “sanctions list” of Nov. 1, 2018. In particular, NSDC Secretary Oleksiy Danilov and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba are included in the list of individuals subject to special economic measures.