The Czech government on November 15 froze property owned by Russia on Czech soil as it put a company managing Russian property abroad on its sanction list. "The government has approved the freezing of Russia's state property in Czechia," Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky said. "This is the end of commercial activities used by Russia to finance the murdering of Ukrainians," he added. The company's bank account will be frozen and so will listings of its real estate in the land register in order to prevent sales. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba hailed Prague for taking "this principled stand."