Dwell weblog: Ukraine declares spherical of recent sanctions in opposition to Russia

Sunday, April 23, 2023

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has announceed new sanctions in opposition to a whole lot of corporations who he mentioned “spend money on and help Russian aggression”.

“That is one other package deal of sanctions in opposition to the Russian protection business enterprises that preserve the terrorist military. This time, 322 corporations had been added to the sanctions lists – producers of weapons, elements, and so on,” Zelenskyy mentioned in his deal with.

“It’s important that international restrictive measures in opposition to the Russian nuclear business have begun. This business not solely generates funds for the aggressor’s funds, but in addition helps to make different states depending on the territory of which allegedly ‘vitality’ nuclear tasks are being carried out. For the Kremlin, any vitality is a weapon. Nuclear vitality can also be a weapon for them. And that is precisely what is occurring on the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Energy Plant, which Russia is utilizing as a weapon to blackmail the world.

2008 GMT – Kharkiv, surrounding districts hit by 5 missiles: officers

Not less than 5 Russian missiles hit the jap Ukrainian metropolis of Kharkiv and surrounding districts late on Saturday night time, inflicting some injury to civilian buildings, native officers mentioned.

Regional governor Oleh Sinegubov, writing on Telegram, mentioned one missile hit a home within the village of Kotliary, simply to the south of Kharkiv, whereas one other sparked a significant fireplace within the metropolis itself.

Russia has for months been launching drones and missiles in opposition to all kinds of Ukrainian targets in a bid to break very important infrastructure.

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