{"id":1405774,"date":"2022-03-28T19:31:04","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T23:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1405774"},"modified":"2022-03-28T19:31:22","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T23:31:22","slug":"ukraines-zelenskiy-says-tougher-russian-sanctions-needed-quickly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ukraines-zelenskiy-says-tougher-russian-sanctions-needed-quickly\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine\u2019s Zelenskiy says tougher Russian sanctions needed quickly"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fukraines-zelenskiy-says-tougher-russian-sanctions-needed-quickly%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1405774&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2022-03-28T224459Z_1_LYNXNPEI2R14K_RTROPTP_0_UKRAINE-CRISIS-ZELENSKIY_1.jpg\" alt=\"Ukraine&#039;s President Zelenskiy addresses the Ukrainian people in Kyiv\" \/><br \/>Ukraine&#8217;s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy addresses the Ukrainian people, as Russia?s attack on Ukraine continues, in Kyiv, Ukraine March 28, 2022. Ukrainian Presidential Press Service\/Handout via REUTERS<\/div>\n<p>March 28, 2022<\/p>\n<p>By Maria Starkova and Ronald Popeski<\/p>\n<p>(Reuters) \u2013     Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Monday urged Western nations to toughen sanctions quickly against Russia, including an oil embargo, to stop Moscow having a free hand to escalate its measures against his country.<\/p>\n<p>In his nightly video address to Ukrainians, a clearly irritated Zelenskiy said the West had miscalculated last year in delaying sanctions and the invasion had followed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA full-scale war has begun. Now there are many hints and warnings that supposedly tougher sanctions, such as an embargo on Russian oil supplies to Europe, will be put in place if Russia uses chemical weapons,\u201d Zelenskiy said, occasionally banging his hands on a table.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are simply no words \u2026 We, people who are alive, have to wait. Doesn\u2019t everything the Russia military has done to date warrant an oil embargo? Don\u2019t phosphorous bombs warrant it? A shelled chemical production facility or a shelled nuclear power plant doesn\u2019t warrant it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s month-old invasion of Ukraine, the biggest European conflict since World War Two, has seen over 3.8 million Ukrainians flee abroad, left thousands dead or injured and isolated Russia\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n<p>Zelenskiy said sanctions had to be \u201ceffective and serious\u201d given Russia\u2019s actions to date.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the sanctions packages are weak or do not work strongly enough, if they can be circumvented, it creates a dangerous illusion for the Russian leadership, as if they will be permitted to continue doing what they are doing now,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUkrainians are paying for this with their lives. Thousands of lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The United States has already introduced an embargo on Russian oil shipments. But Europe, far more dependent on Russian energy, has been more hesitant. Germany, Europe\u2019s largest economy, has said introducing such an embargo would trigger recession and mass unemployment.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Maria Starkova, Ron Popeski and Lidia Kelly; Writing by Ron Popeski; Editing by Cynthia Osterman)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine&#8217;s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy addresses the Ukrainian people, as Russia?s attack on Ukraine continues, in Kyiv, Ukraine March 28, 2022. 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