Although today 70% of the proposals of the Yermak-Makfaul working group regarding sanctions against Russia have already been implemented, however, not all of them have achieved the expected result, the head of the.

“If we talk about the effectiveness of sanctions, at the beginning of the work of our group, we saw that some sanctions have a good look and a good name, but they do not work, such as sanctions against officials of the Russian Federation,” Andrey Yermak said..

He noted that the plans of the G7 countries to introduce price restrictions on Russian energy resources, such as the restriction of purchase prices, “this is a very powerful step that needs to be implemented as soon as possible”.

However, the West must continue to strengthen sanctions against the aggressor country, and the Yermak-McFaul group has the goal of working out such restrictions, the implementation of which will become a “silver bullet” for the Russian military-industrial complex. One of these, in his opinion, could be the recognition of Russia as a sponsor of terrorism..

“As long as Ukrainians are being killed, the existing sanctions are not enough, they need to be increased so that Russia understands that the war will cost more and more, so that more and more Russian citizens feel these sanctions.. It is no coincidence that President Volodymyr Zelensky is talking more and more often about a visa ban for Russians,” Yermak summed up..

He pointed to the inadmissibility of proposals to ease sanctions against Russian oligarchs in exchange for their financial donations to Ukraine, and Michael McFaul, for his part, called the proposed financial assistance absolutely insufficient..

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Recall, Ukraine expects the adoption of the eighth package of EU sanctions against Russia in September.

Despite the fact that President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky has repeatedly called for Russia to be recognized as a terrorist country, Deputy Minister of Justice of Ukraine Irina Mudra, linking the head of the Presidential Office Andriy Yermak, said that the recognition of Russia as a terrorist country in the United States could harm Ukraine, in particular, make it impossible to transfer funds.