“President Volodymyr Zelenskyy expects to prepare the contents of the 20th package of EU sanctions against the Russian Federation within a month and proposes to add to it Russian legal entities and individuals who earn from energy resources, as well as persons involved in the abduction of Ukrainian children.”, — write: www.pravda.com.ua
Volodymyr Zelenskyi, photo OP Source: President’s address
Direct speech: “We are already preparing the 20th package of sanctions together with our partners in the European Union. We expect the content of this package to be prepared within a month and propose to add to the 20th package of sanctions of the European Union Russian legal entities and individuals who still earn from energy resources.
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There will also be an update on kidnappers of Ukrainian children. There should really be global pressure against this.”
Details: Zelensky also emphasized that “there should be much more pressure on all areas that allow Russian military production to work.”
“Each Russian missile, each Russian drone is specific components from other, specific countries, without which there would be no Russian weapons. Work on this should be much more active. And this is the responsibility, in particular, of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine,” he said.
The president also announced new negotiations in the coming weeks for greater support for the energy sector.
“There are countries that are already helping us. In particular, in the states of Northern Europe. And we are also preparing agreements with the countries of Southern Europe. And it is very important from a political point of view to have such a geographically balanced support of Ukrainians, of our state in Europe,” Zelenskyy added.
What preceded: On November 9, Zelenskyi signed a decree on sanctions against the former head of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine Oleksandr Tupytskyi, Vladimir Putin’s entourage, in particular, his special envoy and the head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund Kirill Dmitriev.
Prehistory:
- At the end of October, for the first time during Donald Trump’s second term, the United States applied new large-scale sanctions against Russia. In particular, Rosneft and Lukoil were sanctioned.
- At the same time, the European Union finally approved the 19th package of sanctions against Russia by written procedure. The “energy” block of the sanctions package, in particular, provides for a ban on the import of Russian LNG.
- Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda called on the leaders of the European Union to include the country’s oil giant Lukoil in the 20th package of EU sanctions against Russia.