“It will be more painful than the European sanctions packages”: A Foreign Ministry spokesperson offered his forecast regarding U.S. sanctions against Russia

Tikhyi spoke about this in an interview with "Shelter."

In particular, he predicted that the U.S. would adopt it in September 2026.

Tykhyi predicts that the adoption of this U.S. sanctions package against Russia will trigger a “chain reaction.”

“And it will trigger a chain reaction of other sanctions measures—from the European Union’s 22nd package to sanctions by the G7 and other countries. In other words, this will have a multiplier effect,” the diplomat predicts.

He also pointed out an interesting trend: as soon as the U.S. under Donald Trump began discussing the imposition of sanctions, Russia immediately tried to derail the process.

“Anchorage came about in exactly the same way—if you recall, the moment when serious sanctions were about to be imposed was approaching, and they effectively thwarted them in this way,” he added.

This time around, however—at least so far—Ukraine has not seen such moves from Russia.

“A Senate vote was coming up, but we didn’t see any such serious moves from Moscow, even though we expected them to take some steps to derail the vote. That didn’t happen,” Tykhyi said.

However, he predicted that Moscow would still try to prevent the imposition of U.S. sanctions.

As a reminder, Georgiy Tykhyi explained how Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has, on more than one occasion following meetings with U.S. President Donald Trump, managed to get Trump to change his rhetoric regarding Ukraine.