WASHINGTON, DC – “What [are you] waiting for?” the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky asked world leaders at the Munich Security Council on 19 February. He was demanding to know why they had not already imposed sanctions on Russia. “You’re telling me that it’s 100 per cent that the war will start in a couple of days. Then what [are you] waiting for?
“We don’t need your sanctions after the bombardment will happen, and after our country will be fired at, or after we will have no borders, or after we will have no economy, or parts of our country will be occupied. Why would we need those sanctions then?”
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