EU countries this Wednesdayreduce gold imports Russia and Freezing of Sberbank assetslargest Russian bank, new sanctions round Against Moscow for the war in Ukraine in cooperation with the G7.
“We have approved a new sanctions package”Lithuania’s Ambassador to the EU, Arnoldas Pranckevicius, announced on his official Twitter account.
The agreement was signed by Twenty-Seven at a meeting of EU ambassadors this Wednesday, not yet officially confirmed and comes five days after the European Commission submits the proposal.
new package accommodates 50 people the list of sanctioned persons prohibited from entering the EU, and Their properties and assets in the EU are frozenamong them are “politicians, military leaders, oligarchs and propagandists”.
The list has already exceeded a thousand people, including Russian President Vladimir Putin, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov or former Chelsea president Roman Abramovich.
will also impose New obligations to Russian oligarchs While reporting on their possessions and assets in the EU to tighten their possible freeze, according to a statement released by the Community Executive.
Sanctions approved so far include the freeze of the Russian Central Bank’s assets in the EU, banning the provision of proprietary financial messaging services (SWIFT) to ten Russian entities, including Sberbank.
From August and before the end of the year, the EU will veto the import of 90% of the oil it buys by sea, that is, of all the oil it buys from Moscow.
Again, veto Oil will not apply to incoming pipelineIt’s a concession that European leaders made to Hungarian Prime Minister Víctor Orbán at the last summit in May, which the Czech Republic and Slovakia also benefited from.
Other sanctions that have been approved since February 24, when Russia began invading Ukraine, include: Banning of Russian state media broadcasts in the EULike Russia Today or Sputnik, closing European airspace to Russian airlines and banning the export of dual-use technology.
The EU has also combined the schedule of all sanctions packages approved so far during the almost five-month war as follows: The extension will be reviewed in January 2021.