Chargé d'Affaires of Ukraine in Russia Ruslan Nemchinsky (Ukrainian Ambassador to Moscow Vladimir Yelchenko was recalled on March 17, 2014) has been summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry. This was reported on Thursday, September 17, by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova, Interfax writes . The reason for this step is the inclusion of a number of Russian political figures in the sanctions list by the Ukrainian authorities, she specified.

"On September 17, the Chargé d'Affaires of Ukraine in Russia, Mr. Nemchinsky, was invited to the Russian Foreign Ministry, to whom a strong protest was expressed in connection with yet another unfriendly act by the Ukrainian side," Zakharova said. "Moscow has the right to expect detailed explanations regarding this decision, which we consider odious," she emphasized. "It was also noted that such provocative actions by official Kyiv do not contribute to the normalization of Russian-Ukrainian relations and, of course, undermine the implementation of the Minsk agreements of February 12 of this year," the official representative of the Foreign Ministry noted.

On Wednesday, the decree signed by Poroshenko on sanctions against a number of individuals and legal entities was published on the official website of the President of Ukraine. The restrictive measures are applied for a period of 1 year. The sanctions list includes 400 individuals and 90 legal entities, many of which are Russian.

Ukraine's sanctions list includes State Duma Speaker Sergei Naryshkin, Director of the Moscow Bureau for Human Rights, member of the Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights Alexander Brod, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, Minister of Agriculture Alexander Tkachev, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, and many others.

Russian Foreign Ministry summons Ukrainian diplomat over Kyiv sanctions