Ukraine's Zelenskiy slaps sanctions on 108 people, 37 Russian groups

FILE PHOTO: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy speaks during a meeting of the IMF and World Bank in Marrakech, Morocco, October 11, 2023. REUTERS/Susana Vera

LVIV, Ukraine (Reuters) - President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has sanctioned 37 Russian groups and 108 people including a former prime minister and a former education minister and said he aimed to fight wartime abductions of children from Ukraine and other "Russian terror".

"We are increasing the pressure of our state onto them and each of them must be held responsible for what they have done," he said in his nightly video address on Saturday, after his office issued corresponding decrees with his signature.