“French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barro said that the European Union, on the initiative of France and coordinating with US senators, is preparing a new package of the most severe sanctions against Russia since the beginning of a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.”, – WRITE: www.pravda.com.ua
Source: Barro in a comment on the French TV channel TF1
Details: The Minister noted that after the US President Donald Trump, the proposal for a 30-day ceasefire supported by Ukraine, the number of Russian blows in Ukrainian cities increased five times.
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Direct Language: “It cannot continue, it must stop. In order to achieve this, in coordination with American senators Europe is preparing to impose on the basis of French proposals the most severe sanctions that we have imposed in the last three years. They will directly deplete the resources that allow Vladimir Putin to continue their war.”
Details: According to Barro, the center of the new package is not only the energy sector, including income from oil exports, but also financial players in Russia itself and abroad. It is about legal entities and individuals who help the Kremlin bypass the imposed sanctions. It is because of this, according to Barro, that Putin retains the ability to wage the war despite the growing international pressure.
“Putin is no longer moving on the front and is now limited to the shelling of residential areas and rockets. This leads to numerous casualties among civilians. This should stop,” Barro said.
Prehistory:
- “European Truth” with reference to two diplomats of influential EU States reported that the 18th EU sanctions package against Russia was re-admitted during a meeting of Ambassadors of the European Union (Coreper) in Brussels on July 4, but was not adopted through the position of Slovakia.
- The initiator of the bill with sanctions against Russia for oil trade, the Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said Donald Trump supported their adoption in Congress.
- Senator Graham, his colleague-democrat Richard Blumental and another 80 co-authors, submitted a bill that will provide for additional economic sanctions against Russia for abandoning a truce, including the introduction of 500 percent duties on goods imported from countries that buy Russian oil.
- The project also has support in the House of Representatives, but after its initiation, no steps were taken in the spring.
- Publicly, Trump says he will impose new sanctions against Russia “as needed.”