North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has sharply condemned the use of nerve gas in the United Kingdom against former GRU employee Sergei Skripal and his daughter, reports Voice of America.

Speaking at the launch of NATO’s Annual Report for 2017, Stoltenberg called the poisoning of Skripal "the first offensive use of a nerve agent on Alliance territory since NATO’s foundation."

He described the attack as part of "a reckless pattern of Russian behavior …

President Petro Poroshenko has welcomed the introduction of new US sanctions against Russia.

"Every unlawful and illegitimate act of the Kremlin, whether in the Crimea, the Donbas or Salisbury, will continue to receive our solid, firm and resolute response on both sides of the Atlantic," the President wrote on Facebook.

He stressed that interference in the internal affairs of sovereign states, including electoral processes, has already become routine for Moscow.

"Ukraine has fully felt this …

As the press service of the regulatory body reported, the National Bank of Ukraine has decided to extend sanctions against Ukrainian subsidiaries of Russian state-owned banks.

The National Bank extended sanctions in order to put into effect the decision of the National Security and Defense Council on March 1st.

Earlier, President Petro Poroshenko emphasized that sanctions towards banks with Russian capital are effective and should be extended.

On March 23, 2017, Ukraine imposed sanctions …