“The peace project does not provide for the lifting of US sanctions on the Russian Federation, but their gradual cancellation is possible after the end of the war.”, — write: www.pravda.com.ua
Source: Zelensky during a meeting with journalists on Tuesday, reports “European Truth” with reference to “Interfax-Ukraine”.
Details: The President noted that he does not consider it important that during the signing of the agreement it should be written that sanctions are being lifted from the Russian Federation, as it is not clear what will happen next.
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“We do not see the lifting of sanctions in this agreement between Ukraine and America, but we understand that after the end of the war, America will go for the successive lifting of sanctions. And here the question is how strong the Europeans can be,” Zelenskyy said.
“American sanctions are American sanctions. There are also European sanctions. There are sanctions from other countries of the world. This is a multi-faceted story about sanctions, and it will be quite strange if someone promises something for others. Moreover, we still do not understand how seriously the Russians take this or that document, in general, until the end of the war,” Zelensky emphasized.
He also said that the US wants to have a certain parity with the Russian Federation if they will give free trade to Ukraine, that is, they are talking about a free trade agreement with Ukraine and the Russian Federation, the president of Ukraine said.
“America’s position – since this is a quadripartite document – on free trade, if they are going to give free trade to Ukraine, they want to have a certain parity with the Russians. That is, they are talking about a free trade agreement with Ukraine and a free trade agreement with Russia,” he said.
“But that’s what they’re talking about. We’re talking about ourselves – about this possibility of Ukraine’s free trade with the United States,” Zelenskyy noted, commenting on the tenth point of the peace plan, which provides that after the conclusion of the agreement, Ukraine will speed up the process of concluding a free trade agreement with the United States.
According to the media, the USA are preparing sanctions against the energy industry Russia, if Vladimir Putin rejects a potential peace agreement.
United States last week extended the exemptionwhich allows the sale of oil from the Russian Sakhalin-2 project until June 18 next year.