The members of the crew of the Ukrainian fishing vessel YAMK-0041 that Russian border guards detained near Russian-annexed Crimea could be accused of terrorism. This assumption on Radio Krym.Realii was expressed by Deputy Head of State Border Service of Ukraine Oleh Slobodyan.

Slobodyan explained that the Russian government is now trying to make the crew criminally responsible for anything from terrorism to arms smuggling. He said the objective is to paint the crew as not simply offenders but …

A bill to nationalize the property of Russian companies and banks in Ukraine was introduced for consideration by the Verkhovna Rada. The author of the document is People's Deputy Roman Zvarych from the Petro Poroshenko Bloc faction.

The explanatory note for the bill says that such a measure at the legislative level will allow the government to apply sectorial sanctions to Ukrainian legal entities that carry out economic activities jointly with an "aggressor power."

To "promptly and …

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has called on Ukrainian companies to sue Russia for property lost in the annexed Crimea, as reported by Olena Zerkal, Ukrainian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs for European Integration, in a Facebook post.  

She commented on the decision of the Arbitration Court in The Hague to compensate Ukrainian investors $159 million for lost assets.

"The text and procedure are currently confidential…[but] we can report that the arbitrators have recognized the following: …