Ukrainian war, Kuleba: “Russia increasingly isolated, soon worse than North Korea”

Ukraine-Russia war, “the domino effect has begun, Russia is learning what true isolation is: 113 mega companies have already left Russia, another 213 large companies have partially or completely stopped working with Russian partners”. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said this in a briefing today in Kiev, adding that “it is becoming impossible to live in Russia, and not for war”. “At this rate, North Korea will appear to be a free country compared to Russia”, he added referring to the repressive measures that Moscow is implementing to prevent news of the invasion of Ukraine from being spread. “Hundreds of thousands of Russians don’t want to live like this, we are already seeing anti-war demonstrations,” he said again. For Kuleba the “pressure of sanctions must be increased” because Russia “continues the war and this means that these sanctions are partial measures”. However, the minister stressed that Kiev is “satisfied with the sanctions applied, which are unprecedented and are causing unprecedented damage”. “We are working to ensure that the consequences of sanctions are even more infernal than the current ones”, he added, stating that opposing the application of sanctions “is something immoral that is not in the interests of Europe” and that the Ukrainian blood is on the hands not only of the Russians but also of those who oppose increasing pressure on sanctions. For this reason, the Ukrainian government, said Kuleba, will publish the list of companies that continue to do business with Russia “continuing to make money at the expense of Ukraine”. “You will see in this list some countries and companies that will surprise you, but unfortunately it is the hard truth”, he added without specifying when it will be published. The minister reported that “about twenty thousand foreign volunteers” from “52 countries “arrived in Ukraine. ” For several days Ukraine has been creating troops of volunteers from abroad who want to fight against the Russian invader. Citizens from 52 countries will fight in Ukraine ”, said Kuleba quoted by the Kiev Independent, explaining that “the foreign legion will be composed of about 20 thousand people”.