The Ukrainian leader is “feeding his people into carnage,” MEP Mick Wallace said Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky and his Western supporters are not interested in seeking a peaceful resolution to the conflict with Russia, Mick Wallace, a member of the European Parliament from Ireland, said on Wednesday.

Businessmen were “stunned” to see their accounts frozen in Western banks, the president has said   The West’s seizure of Russian state assets and reserves – and those of its citizens – is a violation of all legal norms, President Vladimir Putin said on Friday, while addressing the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF).

Russian President Vladimir Putin has passed an executive order banning the purchase of foreign software for use in critical infrastructure projects by the state agencies and semi-government entities, in an apparent bid to make the country less vulnerable to further Western sanctions and potential cyberattacks.