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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said connected Sunday (February 8, 2026) that helium was imposing sanctions connected immoderate overseas manufacturers of components for Russian drones and missiles utilized against Ukraine.
“Producing this weaponry would beryllium intolerable without captious overseas components, which the Russians proceed to get by circumventing sanctions,” Mr. Zelenskyy said connected X.
“We are introducing caller sanctions precisely against specified companies – constituent suppliers, arsenic good arsenic rocket and drone manufacturers. I person signed the applicable decisions.”
According to 2 decrees published by the Ukrainian presidency, targets of the sanctions see respective Chinese companies arsenic good arsenic companies from the erstwhile Soviet Union, the United Arab Emirates and Panama.
Despite negotiations to extremity the four-year war, Russia has sharply accrued the standard and fig of missile and drone strikes connected Ukraine successful caller months, focusing its attacks connected the vigor and logistics sectors.
Overnight into Saturday, Russia carried retired different monolithic onslaught connected Ukraine, deploying implicit 400 drones and astir 40 missiles of assorted types. Producing this weaponry would beryllium intolerable without captious overseas components, which the Russians proceed to get by…
— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) February 8, 2026Mr. Zelenskyy said connected X that successful the past week, Russia had launched much than 2,000 onslaught drones, 1,200 guided aerial bombs, and 116 missiles of assorted types astatine Ukraine’s cities and villages.
Strikes connected powerfulness stations and substations person near full regions without energy and heating, with blackouts successful the superior Kyiv lasting up to 20 hours.
Mr. Zelenskyy said helium had besides imposed sanctions against the Russian fiscal assemblage and bodies that enactment the Russian crypto marketplace and mining operations.
