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25 Feb. () –
The President of Ukraine, Volodimir Zelenski, has celebrated the tenth round of sanctions approved ‘in extremis’ by the EU coinciding with the first anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and has warned that this round “will not be the last”.
“This is the tenth and obviously not the last round of sanctions. The sanctions will continue to be imposed until there is nothing left of the Russian aggression potential,” Zelensky said in his daily evening speech, posted on social media.
The Ukrainian president has stressed that these latest and “powerful” sanctions are directed “against the defense industry and the financial sector of the terrorist state” Russian, as well as against “propagandists who have plunged Russian society into lies and who try to spread these lies all over the world”.
Zelensky has advocated imposing new sanctions on Russia’s state-owned nuclear power company, Rosatom, and also on participants in the missile program and Russian “nuclear blackmail.”
THE WORLD “LOVES THE STRONG AND HELP THE BRAVE”
On a diplomatic level, Zelenski has highlighted the success of the approval in the United Nations General Assembly of a resolution presented by Ukraine condemning the Russian invasion. Thus, he thanked “each of the 141 States that have supported our resolution.”
“The resolution on peace for Ukraine, on the territorial integrity of our state and the protection of International Law against Russian aggression (…) has become the basis for a series of concrete international political and legal decisions and the majority of the world supports it,” he stressed.
This diplomatic victory certifies that “Ukraine is getting stronger and keeps getting stronger.” “The world loves the strong and helps the brave”, he stressed, before closing his speech with the now traditional “Glory to Ukraine!”
