The authorities and the people of Ukraine expect that Europe will tighten its sanctions against Russia because of the war in Ukraine. The list of sanctions should include disconnection from SWIFT of the largest Russian banks and the closure of European ports for Russian ships. Igor Zhovkva, Deputy Head of the President's Office, said this in an interview with TSN..

Currently, only seven Russian banks have been disconnected from SWIFT, which Zhovkva calls secondary. These are Otkritie Bank, Novikombank, Promsvyazbank, Rossiya Bank, Sovcombank, VEB and VTB Bank. Ukraine wants to include Sberbank, Gazprombank and all other major banks.

" Similar sanctions have already been imposed by Canada and the UK..

Zhovkva also urged the European Union to freeze and confiscate Russian hard currency accounts in European banks and consider refusing to issue visas to Russian citizens and even withdraw existing ones..

According to him, Ukraine is also talking with the EU about an embargo on Russian energy imports..

" We talk about this on a daily basis with the EU leadership. But again, unfortunately, the decision-making process is rather slow..

When President Macron said after the Versailles summit, come on, we are ready to impose even greater sanctions if the situation worsens. Our question to him: how many more lives of citizens of Ukraine, children of Ukraine, need to be given in order for these sanctions to be? " Nobody did it. Sanctions began to be introduced only now, when there is a "

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