In connection with the armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine, while the valiant troops of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are mounting stiff resistance, the State Financial Monitoring Service of Ukraine initiated an appeal to the President of the FATF with the call:

- to recognize the Russian Federation as a country which, through its actions, proliferates weapons of mass destruction and to designate it to the relevant FATF sanctions list;

- to exclude Russia from the FATF member states.

In addition, given the actions of the Russian Federation, which according to numerous conventions are considered as crimes of terrorism and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, the SFMS initiated an appeal to the Chairman of the Egmont Group and the Executive Secretary of the Egmont Group to exclude Russia from the Egmont Group of Financial Intelligence Units members.