“Now we are receiving operational information about possible attempts to destabilize the situation by means of forceful provocations, as well as incitement of hostility and civil confrontation from external and internal destructive forces,” Shkiryak wrote on Facebook.

Earlier, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced his decision to impose sanctions on the TV channels 112 Ukraine, NEWSONE and ZIK.

The US Embassy in Kiev supported this decision. 

The European Union said that they are assessing the consequences of the decision of the Ukrainian authorities to impose sanctions against three opposition TV channels.