Ukraine has urged the European Union to impose economic sanctions on Russia to punish it for staging annexation votes in four occupied regions and said the moves by Moscow would not change Ukraine’s actions on the battlefield.
Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, after talks in Kyiv with French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna, said personal sanctions would not suffice as punishment for the referendums, billed by Russia as a prelude to it annexing four Ukrainian regions.
Kuleba told reporters that the softer the response to the so-called referendums is, the more Russia will be motivated to escalate and annex territories,”.
