China News Service, March 21. According to a CNN report, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky delivered a televised speech to the nation on the 21st local time, calling on Germany to "save" Ukraine's capital, Kyiv.
According to the report, Zelensky said in a televised speech that Kyiv was once known as the "new Berlin" and that both had a similar urban spirit.
He described people now in Kyiv, which has been "closed", waiting to enter shelters after new air raid sirens sounded.
That day, Zelensky played a 20-second air raid siren, which he said had been haunting Ukrainians for "hours, days and weeks."
"The siren is the sound that Ukrainians listen to when they live, work and sleep," he added.
Zelensky said both Europe and Germany were "capable" of putting pressure on Russia, and without "your trade, your companies and your banks, Russia would not have the funds to support this war".
Zelensky again called on Ukraine to close European ports to Russia, give up imports of Russian energy resources and cut off the supply of goods to Russia.
Reuters reported on the 21st, citing EU diplomatic sources, that the EU is working on a fifth round of sanctions against Russia over the Ukraine crisis.
In the previous sanctions, Russian government officials, parliamentarians, and senior military personnel were listed as sanctions by the EU, some banks were removed from the SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Communication) system, and Russian aircraft were not allowed to fly over the airspace of EU member states. Media dissemination of information in the EU is also restricted.
However, in the energy sector sanctions, after the EU announced to cut Russia's natural gas imports by two-thirds this year, German Chancellor Scholz said that Germany supports sanctions against Russia, but not Russian energy, and there is no other way to ensure that Europe heating, transportation, electricity supply and industrial energy supply.