Zelenskyy proposed imposing tough sanctions against companies violating trade with Russia

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced this during the YES 2025 Annual Conference, organized by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation.

The Head of State noted that the issue of sanctions concerns not only US President Donald Trump, but also European countries.

If Russia receives missile parts, we may not even raise the question of what we need if Russia constantly receives parts for its missiles from various companies. Of course, this is not at the state level, the leaders of America and Europe are against this, but there is a private market. They are increasing missile production in Russia.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy

President of Ukraine

As Zelensky explained, the Russians get parts for their missiles in other countries.

In his opinion, there is no solution other than to impose sanctions on private companies of any state that should stop supplying missile components to Russia.

We need to do this, and then after a certain period of time Russia will not be able to build so many missiles per day. If we are talking about factories that build drones, artillery, helicopters, etc. Countries supply machine tools, and not only China. Other Asian countries, European countries, which supplied before the war, but the machine tools are standing. I just don't want to advise companies like Siemens, for example, to stop their machine tools.