On March 27, 2014 the Ambassador of Ukraine to the Kingdom of Norway met with the President of the Norwegian Storting Olemic Thommessen. The Ambassador informed the President of the Parliament about the situation in Ukraine, in particular about the recent events in Crimea caused by Russia’s military intervention. He specifically underscored the deployment of Russian troops along the Ukrainian-Russian land border, the blocking of Ukrainian military bases and facilities in Crimea, the seizure of Ukrainian Navy’s vessels, the kidnapping of Ukrainian military and civil activists, the escalation of tensions in the South-East of Ukraine etc. The intelocutors discussed further democratic changes and urgent social-economic reforms in Ukraine, as well as collaboration between the Parliaments of the two countries.