Zelensky decrees sanctions against Bashar al Assad and other senior Syrian officials

March 19 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The President of Ukraine, Volodimir Zelensky, has presented sanctions against the Syrian President, Bashar al Assad, in a decree published this Saturday that establishes restrictive measures also for other senior officials of the Syrian Government.

Specifically, the decree blocks the assets that the Syrian president may have in Ukraine, in addition to prohibiting any commercial transaction in which he may be involved, measures that will be in force for a period of ten years, reports ‘Kyiv Independent’.

This new battery of sanctions also affects the Prime Minister of Syria, Hussein Arnus, and the Foreign Minister, Faisal al Mikdad, as well as 141 entities and 300 individuals from Syria and Russia.

Bashar al-Assad visited Russia this week to convey to his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, Damascus’s support for Moscow regarding the war in Ukraine where, according to him, the Russian Armed Forces are facing “new and old Nazis” from Europe. .

In the words of the Syrian president, talking about Nazis in Ukraine is justified because “the West accepted the old Nazis in their own land” in the middle of the last century, and now “supports them again” in the framework of the war, collects TASS.

Ukraine severed diplomatic ties with Russia last year after the Syrian government recognized occupied areas in eastern Ukraine as Russian.