It is reported that after Russia held a "referendum action" in four regions of eastern Ukraine last month, Zelensky announced a decree to stop all negotiations with Russia, which is seen as a huge change in Ukraine's "position", and the conflict between the two countries is expanding day by day. But so far, Russia and Ukraine, two countries that have actually been at war, have severed exchanges in the fields of economy, trade, politics and other fields, but have never openly declared war; Ukraine has already launched domestic mobilization and conscription, and Russia announced this week that the four places in eastern Ukraine have entered a "wartime state", and the trend of expanding the conflict is becoming more and more obvious.
On the 20th, the Ukrainian side continued to advance and launched an "unprecedented" major sanctions against Russia. According to the Ukrainian state news agency, more than 2,000 Russian businessmen and officials were included in the sanctions list, as well as more than 1,000 Russian companies, covering almost all areas; These people include not only officials of Russian government agencies, but also businessmen, sports athletes, hosts, bank heads and other people, such as Olympic figure skating medalist Yevgeny Plushenko, boxer Fido Emilienko and others are also among them; Sources said that many of these celebrities have international influence, but it is not yet known what the actual purpose of the sanctions is.
In general, the sanctions imposed by Ukraine this time are very severe: all assets of those who have been "blocked" in Ukraine will be frozen, and they will also be refused entry, transit and even transit flights in the future; All its certificates and permits involving Ukraine will be revoked, and it will not allow any trade contacts with the Ukrainian business community. However, according to the information obtained by the Russian media, the vast majority of the sanctioned institutions and individuals "do not have any business in Ukraine", and even have no records of entering and leaving Ukraine, and the sanctions have little impact on them. Government agencies and entities in Russia have long been opposed to the Ukrainian government, and it is impossible to participate in these affairs even without sanctions, so it is very limited according to the "lethality".
Some analysts believe that Ukraine's sanctions are the largest sanctions against Russia in the long historical process since the establishment of the Kievan Rus principality, and the significance is self-evident. One of the two aspects is that Zelensky hopes to completely draw a clear line with Russia through a decree; Until the Crimean referendum and the Donbass crisis, there are deep ties between Russia and Ukraine in economic, cultural and other aspects, and these ties can be completely "cut" through thousands of sanctions; The second is the "legal confiscation" of Russian assets in Ukraine, Zelensky has been trying to promote the confiscation of the property of the Russian government and citizens since the beginning of the war, and the Ukrainian media also described "not a single pipe left for them."
It is also worth mentioning that after the issuance of sanctions, it means that even if the two countries negotiate peace in the future, they will not be able to restore their previous relations, and both the government and citizens have moved towards a state of hostility. Three days ago, Putin's friend and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said in an interview that as far as he learned about the information that Russia did not expect to develop to this point with Ukraine, Putin "just wanted to replace the Zelensky regime" from the beginning, but then he found out that the unforeseen situation is the resistance of the Ukrainians and NATO intervention in assistance, so the war has become a "struggle for more than two hundred years." ”