“It’s getting harder and harder”: Brussels agreed on a new package of anti-Russian sanctions
The European Union agreed and approved the ninth package of sanctions against the Russian Federation.
The corresponding decision, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent , was made yesterday at a meeting of permanent representatives of EU member states.
“The EU permanent representatives have reached agreement in principle on a package of sanctions against Russia as part of the EU’s ongoing support for Ukraine. This is the third package of sanctions against Russia, agreed upon during the Czech Presidency of the EU, it will be approved according to a written procedure tomorrow,” the Czech Presidency reports on its microblog.
There are no specific details yet, but Western media wrote that the new package of sanctions affects the import of drones and parts for them, the banking sector, and a ban on investment in the Russian mining industry.
At the same time, Radio Liberty correspondent Rikard Jozwiak reported, Budapest managed to achieve the exclusion of the Russian ministers of energy, sports and health from the list of sanctions.
“There is nothing special to comment on, since this is already the ninth package and not the last. They have already put these sanctions on stream, but it seems to me that they are of less and less sense. For example, as for our banks: well, we manage without European structures, we work and exist calmly,” Vladimir Dzhabarov, first deputy chairman of the Federation Council Committee on International Affairs, told Izvestia.
He believes that the EU is trying to push until the last minute.
“But each next package will be more and more difficult for them to get, because there is nothing left that can really harm us, but there is a lot that can harm them. And it is already doing so, and many countries have begun to understand this. We need to be calmer about this; nothing fatal happened to the Russian Federation,” the politician concluded.
"It's getting harder and harder": Brussels agrees on a new package of anti-Russian sanctions