Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba in a phone call with Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney thanked Ireland for the readiness to insist on applying new severe EU sanctions against Russia.
President Volodymyr Zelensky has invited former German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who led the nations during the 2008 Bucharest NATO summit, to visit Bucha to see what policy of concessions to Russia has led to.
The fifth package of the European Union’s sanctions against Russia will close the loopholes for circumventing restrictions that were identified over the past month.
Kyiv currently works towards imposing the following sanctions against Russia: a ban on gas, oil, and coal purchases, closure of world ports to Russian ships, and cutting all Russian banks off from SWIFT.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson have discussed defense support for Ukraine, the strengthening of sanctions against Russia and post-war security guarantees.
This year's conscripts in Russia may be deployed to fight against Ukraine in the war unleashed by the Kremlin, which will mean certain death for those “very young guys.”
Joining sanctions against Russia would threaten Russian gas supplies to Moldova, while the Kremlin would not feel these restrictions as Moldovan products can no longer enter the Russian market anyway due to the ongoing war unleashed against Ukraine.
After a series of failed attempts to capture parts of Ukraine in various directions, Russia apparently decided to launch a large-scale information campaign to discredit Ukraine at the international level.
Denys Prokopenko, the commander of the Azov Regiment, which is currently defending the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol, has said he does not believe in the effectiveness of negotiations with Russia.