KYIV, Oct 17 – Disconnections of new Russian banks from SWIFT should become part of the ninth package of EU sanctions against Russia, Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said.

"Now work begins on the ninth package [of sanctions] of the EU. I was very frank. First of all, I mentioned very specifically what Ukraine expects in this ninth sanctions package. This includes disconnecting new Russian banks from SWIFT. I don't understand at all why they stopped doing it, what obstacles - there are no rational explanations for this. More precisely, there are: we know about them, but they are insufficient," Kuleba said in a video message on Facebook on Monday.