13:10 22.04.2022

Ukrainian defense minister urges to give Ukraine heavy weapons, impose global embargo on Russian oil, gas

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Ukrainian defense minister urges to give Ukraine heavy weapons, impose global embargo on Russian oil, gas

Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov has called on countries to give Ukraine heavy weapons to defend and liberate Russian-occupied territories, as well as to impose a complete global embargo on Russian oil and gas, real sanctions against the Russian banking system and trade.

"Primarily we need heavy weapons to defend and liberate Russian-occupied territories. I know that these weapons can be sourced quickly from different countries. All that's needed is the will to do so. If you give us these weapons, you will show the world that you are not afraid to confront evil. We also need a total global embargo on Russian oil and gas. We need real sanctions against Russia's banking system and trade," Reznikov wrote in an article for The Wall Street Journal.

He said that in this case, Russian invaders will be gone from Ukraine in a few months.

"If you don't, the war will drag on, and the terrorist state of the Russian Federation will destroy the reputations of global leaders and encourage other rogues to test their strength. The flames of the war can spread to other countries at any moment because Vladimir Putin won't stop in Ukraine," the minister said.

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At the same time, Reznikov said that among the casualties of Russia's war on Ukraine has been the postwar system of global order and security. He called for the replacement of the UN Security Council and the OSCE, which failed in preventing a war against Ukraine, with a new and more effective set of international institutions.

"Russia has done everything that the international security institutions were created to prevent. How can the United Nations Security Council, on which Moscow has a permanent seat, live up to its mission to maintain peace? What kind of security and cooperation is possible on the Continent when one participating state of the Organization for Cooperation and Security in Europe has attacked another and killed thousands of civilians? These organizations have failed. Like the League of Nations before them, they must be replaced by a new and more effective set of international institutions capable of serving the interests of all countries, not only those of the great powers," he wrote.

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