Oleksiy Danilov, Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council, has stated that Kyiv, Kharkiv, Mariupol, Mykolaiv, Chernihiv and Odessa remain strategically important.
Russian occupying forces have resorted to the tactic of open terror: they execute targeted attacks on Ukraine’s civilian population and critical civilian infrastructures.
The Cabinet of Ministers requested the National Security and Defense Council (RNBO) to consider measures to counter Russia’s ban on the transit of Ukrainian goods.
Militants and the Russian military killed approximately 10,000 Ukrainians in the two years of the Anti-terrorist operation in parts of Donbas, while 20,000 people were wounded — Ukrinform reported on May 31, 2016.