Axios learned about Zelensky's call for immediate US sanctions against Russia

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told US senators who visited Kyiv this week that sanctions against RUSSIA should be imposed now, and not wait for a possible “invasion” of Ukraine. This is reported by Axios, citing four sources.

“The president has made it very clear that sanctions against Nord Stream 2 must be introduced now,” a source close to Zelensky told the publication. Any conditional measures against the Russian gas pipeline or other potential restrictions would be useless, he said.

Kyiv believes that further escalation sanctions “will be neutral at best, and at worst they will actually spur [Russian President Vladimir] Putin,” the Axios source added. According to him, Putin "does not understand vague threats, the word" if "is not in his vocabulary, there is" yes "and" no ".