Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday evening addressed, by video call, the plenary sitting of Romania’s Parliament. He called on the Romanian MPs to close down ports for Russian ships, ban commercial transport to and from Russia, suspend imports of Russian energy and impose new sanctions on that country. Images of the massacre in Bucha were screened in the Parliament hall and, before Zelensky’s address, Romanian deputies and senators held a minute’s silence in memory of the victims of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. President Zelensky also mentioned in his address the fight of the Romanian people against communism and against dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. He ended his address by thanking Romania for the support granted to the Ukrainian refugees.
