Source: Global Times

According to the US Axios News Network reporter, on the same day, Russian President Dmitry Zelensky has arrived in the United States and is expected to meet with U.S. Special Envoy Witkov on the Middle East on the 25th. In this regard, the French news agency analyzed that the West is increasing pressure on Russia. The U.S. government on the 22nd announced the imposition of sanctions on the two largest Russian oil companies. On the same day, the European Union officially passed the 19th round of sanctions on Russia, taking further restrictions on Russian oil and gas industries. Russian media said that Russian President Putin¡¯s response to the oil regulation was ¡°relative,¡± but Pyongyang said it could not provide ¡°Russia back to Ukraine with a tackling of nuclear weapons in the war line,¡± excluding the Japanese army¡¯s ¡°

On the 23rd, Ukrainian soldiers in the important fortress city of Donetsk, Konstantinovka, opened fire on the Russian army with the BM-21 "Iceberg" multi-powered rocket cannon.

No money for help.

"Despite failing to reach an agreement on using frozen Russian assets to support Ukraine, the EU vowed to support Ukraine." The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) reported that EU member states failed to approve the use of frozen Russian assets to provide "defense loans" to Ukraine due to Belgian concerns about legal problems. This plan is currently postponed until December for separate discussion. According to reports, the above-mentioned Russian assets are worth about 140 billion euros and are currently frozen in a clearing bank in Belgium.

Zelensky welcomed the statement on 23rd, believing it was a signal of ¡°political support¡± for the use of Russian assets to aid Kiev. According to the British Guardian, for weeks Zelensky has been begging the West to provide more long-range weapons, while Russia has warned that if the West provides it will exacerbate the conflict.

Shadow of the Storm Missile

According to the BBC, Stammer plans to push allies to supply more long-range missiles to Ukraine at the "Volunteer Alliance" conference in London on March 24. Stammer is expected to announce that under the £1.6 billion deal signed in March this year, Britain will deliver more than a hundred additional anti-aircraft missiles to Ukraine in advance.

If the European Union fails to reach a consensus on the activation of frozen Russian assets, the 23rd promise of funding for Ukraine could seriously drag on the budget budget of the member states, which had already been cluttered. and even if the EU gathered funds, the Russian conflict is still difficult to win. Sergey Popov, a senior lecturer in economics at Cardiff University in the UK, also asked whether the sanctions would really have a significant impact on Russia's ability to continue to fight?

Russia Considering Response

Russian presidential press secretary Peskov said on Thursday that Russia is analyzing a new round of sanctions against Russia, which will not be aimed at a country, but will respond for its own national interests.About Trump's statement on 23 on the impact of the new sanctions "will be revealed in six months", Peskov replied that Russia will indeed observe what will happen in six months.

Russia's News24 said Moscow's response to the U.S. sanctions was relatively calm. The day before, Putin publicly said that the U.S. announcement of sanctions was a "unfriendly move" against Russia, which did not help strengthen the Russian-U.S. relations that had just begun to recover. He said that the U.S. imposition of new sanctions on Russia was aimed at putting pressure on Russia, but would not have a major impact on the Russian economy.

Putin said all discussions about the possibility of providing Kiev with a ¡°war ax¡± missile were attempts to escalate the situation, and if such weapons were used to attack Russian territory, it would result in a very strong and even surprising response from the Russian side.

Data map of Russian President Vladimir Putin

Russian military analyst Igor Korotchenko said on Thursday that if attacked by the ¡°Taxic¡± or ¡°Golden Bull¡± missiles, Russia could take any retaliatory options and ¡°do not hesitate to use nuclear weapons¡± if necessary. Russia¡¯s ¡°Military Comments¡± network quoted British and Turkish experts as saying one of the possible responses Russia is considering is to take a pattern of action similar to Iran¡¯s targeting U.S. military bases in Iraq.

OPEC is ready to increase production

Meanwhile, the international community has focused its attention on the impact of a new round of U.S. and European sanctions on global oil supply and prices. Reuters said that international oil prices fell in the morning of the 24th deal and partially reverted to the rise of the day before. One analyst said: ¡°Oil prices are tending to stabilize, which indicates that market betting on the situation will tend to ease.¡±

According to the Egyptian Financial Times, the core concerns of the international energy market are that the exports of the two sanctioned Russian oil giants together account for 50% of the country¡¯s total crude oil exports, which could lead to global supply tensions.The analysis said that the effect of the sanctions was key to the response of major oil importers such as India.

Faced with the potential supply gap, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), with Arab countries as its core, said it was ready to increase oil production. Kuwaiti Oil Minister Tariq Rumi warned on the 23rd that sanctions against Russia's energy industry will push up global oil prices. For this reason, OPEC is preparing to offset the oil shortage in the market by "canceling production cuts."

In fact, OPEC has shifted to the strategy of "increasing production and maintaining share" since April 2025. Before the news of a new round of sanctions against Russia came out, Saudi Arabia's crude oil production was close to 10 million barrels per day.