KIEV, Jan. 26 – Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council wants Ukraine to join international anti-Russian sanctions which, it said, must be expanded.

"In order to increase pressure on Russia, the National Security and Defense Council has passed a resolution requiring that the sanctions introduced against Russia by the European Union, Switzerland, the United States and the G7, become mandatory for application in Ukraine and be expanded," the NSDC's press service reported after the Council's meeting on Sunday.