KYIV, Feb 8 — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has said that he is imposing sanctions on some foreign manufacturers of components for Russian drones and missiles used against Ukraine.
"Producing this weaponry would be impossible without critical foreign components, which the Russians continue to obtain by circumventing sanctions.
"We are introducing new sanctions precisely against such companies — component suppliers, as well as missile and drone manufacturers. I have signed the relevant decisions," he said on X (formerly Twitter) on Sunday.
According to two decrees published by the Ukrainian Presidency, targets of the sanctions include several Chinese companies as well as companies from the former Soviet Union, the United Arab Emirates. and Panama.
Despite negotiations to end the four-year war, Russia has sharply increased the scale and number of missile and drone strikes on Ukraine in recent months, focusing its attacks on the energy and logistics sectors.
In the past week on X, Zelenskiy said that Russia had launched over 2,000 attack drones, 1,200 guided aerial bombs, and 116 missiles of various types at Ukraine's cities and villages.
Strikes on power stations and substations have left entire regions without electricity and heating, with blackouts in the capital Kyiv lasting up to 20 hours.
He added that he also imposed sanctions against the Russian financial sector and bodies that support the Russian crypto market and mining operations.
