Kyiv (dpa-AFX) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj has complained about the hesitance of the Europeans to impose sanctions on Russia. “Ukraine will always be an independent state and will not break up,” said Zelenskyy in his evening video address on Thursday. The question is what price Ukraine has to pay for its freedom – and what price Russia has to pay for the senseless war.
Zelenskyj asked why the EU is taking so long to adopt a sixth sanctions package. Russia still earns billions from energy exports, and not all Russian banks have yet been sanctioned. How long will Ukraine have to fight to get the weapons it needs, he asked.
“The occupiers’ ongoing offensive in Donbass could desert the region,” Zelensky said. Cities would be destroyed, people killed or kidnapped, he said. He saw this as “an obvious policy of genocide”. Russia attacked neighboring Ukraine 92 days ago on February 24./fko/DP/he