The Czech Republic, which presides over the European Union, announced that the European Union agreed to impose new sanctions on Russia after Moscow annexed four regions of Ukraine, namely Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporozhye.

In a statement released by the French Press Agency (AFP), she noted that the latest package – the eighth since the start of the Russian military operation in February – is now undergoing final approval procedures, which, if there are no objections, will be published and come into force. Thursday”.

Earlier in the day, Russian President Vladimir Putin officially signed a decree on the annexation of four Ukrainian regions – Donetsk, Lugansk, Zaporozhye and Kherson – to Russia, the Russian TASS news agency reported.

On September 30, Putin, during the signing ceremony of the agreements on the accession of the Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions to the Russian Federation, announced that “Lugansk, Donetsk, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions have become Russian regions”, noting that “the accession of the regions of the New Four of the Russian Federation expresses the people’s the will of millions,” he said, noting that “the choice of millions of residents of these regions is carried out after the catastrophe of the fragmentation of the Soviet Union,” noting that “we will do everything to protect our lands, and the Kyiv regime must respect the will of the people.”