President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has been talking concerning the duties that lie forward for him and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, together with imposing sanctions on firms concerned within the manufacture of Russia’s Oreshnik medium-range hypersonic missile.

Supply: European Pravda; Zelenskyy on X (Twitter)

Particulars: Zelenskyy met with Starmer at his official residence on Monday 23 June.

The principle targets right this moment, he stated, are to avoid wasting as many Ukrainian lives as potential, to cease Russian terror, and to pressure Russia to consider peace relatively than increasing the warfare.

Zelenskyy stated he and Starmer could be discussing political and diplomatic coordination, the event of joint defence tasks and weapons manufacturing, and sanctions that might make it unattainable for Russia to scale up weapons manufacturing.

"Specifically, we’ll present our companions with a listing of Russian enterprises concerned within the manufacturing of the Oreshnik system and different means utilized by Russia for terror. All firms and people engaged on this should be sanctioned – on the very least – in the important thing jurisdictions of the world," Zelenskyy tweeted.

The Ukrainian president stated that a lot of the firms concerned in Oreshnik’s manufacturing haven’t been sanctioned.

"We’ll right that. Cooperation with Russian weapons producers is against the law in opposition to peace. That’s precisely the way it needs to be interpreted," Zelenskyy stated.

Background:

• On the identical day, Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin introduced that Russia is ramping up manufacturing of Oreshnik missiles, which had been first launched in opposition to Ukraine in November final 12 months.
• In November, Zelenskyy stated that Putin was "brandishing the Oreshnik" to stop US President Donald Trump from ending the Russo-Ukrainian warfare.
• In December 2024, the Kremlin chief stated that Oreshnik techniques – which Moscow had been utilizing to intimidate the West after it permitted Ukraine to launch its weapons in long-range strikes in opposition to Russia – may very well be deployed in Belarus in 2025.

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