KYIV: Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said on Thursday he welcomed a sweeping new set of US sanctions imposed on Russia and praised the measures taken against its defence industrial base.

“We particularly applaud tough measures against Russia’s defense-industrial base and its access to technology and resources abroad,” he wrote on X.

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“Any entity assisting Russia in the production of weapons must be subjected to the most intense pressure.”