The First Deputy Head of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine, Oleh Luhovskyi, delivered a report. He informed me about the behind-the-scenes approaches of partners to communication with the Russian side and about the real attitude toward Ukraine and negotiations at this stage. It is important that all our positions are based on real prospects. I also instructed the Foreign Intelligence Service to provide partners with new information regarding Russia’s attempts to expand its tanker fleet. Due to our coordinated pressure measures – together with a number of states – against the shadow fleet, at least 20 percent of its vessels have been halted, and Russia is now trying to compensate for this loss by bringing in new tankers. All of them must be added to sanctions lists. We will continue to apply sanctions pressure on tanker crews, captains, insurers, and the entire infrastructure of the shadow fleet. The current restrictions on Russia’s maritime oil exports are expected to curb Russia’s annual revenues by at least 30 billion dollars. Additional pressure will certainly increase this amount of Russian losses and therefore reduce the financing of Russia’s war. We will also inform our partners about new schemes used by Chinese companies to help Russia circumvent sanctions against the financial sector. The task of everyone in the world who wants this war to end must be to constrain Russia’s ability to adapt to the pressure imposed in response to this war. Effective pressure on the aggressor is the key fertilizer for driving the diplomatic process. I thank all our partners who understand the situation precisely this way and work as effectively as possible along all sanctions tracks. I thank the team of the Foreign Intelligence Service for their effective work.(Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський)