President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that he had asked the United States and the European Union to impose sanctions on the Kremlin and Russian dictator Vladimir Putin before the full-scale invasion. However, they refused, notes Zelenskyy in an interview with Central Asian media. “I asked President Biden (President of the USA) and the European Union to impose sanctions on the Kremlin, Putin, his entourage, and Russia’s energy sector before the invasion, so he would know it would hurt. So their people would know it would hurt economically,” the head of state said. According to Zelensk…