President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has signed a law introducing that the legal age of consent is 16 years.
The presidential press service announced this in a statement, Ukrainian News Agency reports.
The envisages amendments to the Penal Code of Ukraine.
As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, in December 2017, the Verkhovna Rada adopted a law to introduce a criminal responsibility for compelling to marriage and domestic violence.
The law envisaging a criminal responsibility for domestic violence and compelling to marriage will become effective January 11, 2019.
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