Stop multiplying insufficiently strong sanctions packages – Zelenskyi Urges EU to Introduce Total Oil Embargo

Volodymyr Zelenskyi, the President of Ukraine, urges the Europe to introduce the mandatory embargo on Russian fuel and impose the total restrictions on the Russian banking system as part of the sixth sanction package, since this is the only way to stop this war. 

This statement was made during Zelenskyi’s video address last night.

 «Today, in my address to the parliament and the people of Lithuania, and at the same time to all European nations, I stressed that the sixth package of EU sanctions against Russia must include oil. Stop multiplying insufficiently strong sanctions packages. In any case, you will have to acknowledge that only Europe's abandonment of Russia's energy resources and the complete restriction of Russia's banking system can be an argument for Russia's leadership to seek peace. Without this, Moscow is looking for a military solution», Zelenskyi said.

The President believes that this will be the most efficient way to prevent the use of chemical weapon against Ukrainian people.

«Given the repeated threats of Russian propagandists to use chemical weapons against the defenders of Mariupol and the repeated use by the Russian army of phosphorus munitions in Ukraine for example, the world must respond now. Respond preventively. Because after the use of weapons of mass destruction, any response will not change anything. And it will only look like a humiliation for the democratic world», he emphasized.

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