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The European Union agreed to extend the sanctions for another six months in more than 2500 natural and legal organizations and organizations accused of supporting Russia’s complete invasion of Ukraine and undermines the country’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.
The black list includes President Vladimir Putin, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, legislators, high generals, oligarchs, businessmen, propagandists and mercenaries, as well as those who are responsible for kidnapping children from the occupied territories of the occupied territories.
The decision on the extension was made on Friday during the meeting of ambassadors in Brussels, which was confirmed by the presidency of the Danish Council of the EU.
Negotiations dangerously approached the legal term on September 15.
The main point of disagreement was Hungary and Slovakia to remove some names of black lists. After several rounds of discussion, not a single name escaped.
Earlier this year, Budapest managed to exclude Three namesField
At the same time, the presidency of Denmark contributed to a change in the rules for extending sanctions for 12 months, not traditional six months. The change was developed to restrict the operation of powers granted by unanimous.
Both Hungary and Slovakia Used their veto To extract concessions, annoying other states -member states. Two countries of Central Europe are loud critics of sanctions against Russia, even if they completely stopped them.
In the end, the amendment was rejected, which means that six months remain the rule.
Blok previously tried to install a 12 -month structure for protecting 210 billion euros, committed by Russia’s assets from veto -shocks. This effort also failed.
The decision on Friday came against the background of the resumption of efforts between Brussels and Washington to coordinate the pressure campaign in the Kremlin and the promotion of negotiations.
The approach, however, deviates: while the White House calls for punitive duties in China and India, the two largest importers of Russian oil, the committee works on one New round of financial sanctionsaimed at the “shadow fleet” and the entities that allow bypass. The block also promised Accelerates the gradual abolition Russian fossil fuel, which is currently completed by the end of 2027.
“As soon as we expanded our sanctions against Russia,” said the high representative of Kai Calla.
“At the same time, we are finishing work for the 19th package – we study additional restrictions on the sales of Russian oil, shadow oil tankers and banks. We will continue to drown in cash for Putin’s war. ”
Europeans remain largely not convinced of Donald Trump’s readiness to push Moscow. After an unprecedented invasion of Russian unmanned aircraft to the Polish airline at the beginning of this week, it seemed to repeat the words of the Kremlin, implying that the incident “could be wrong.”
The Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk replied: “We would also want an attack with an unmanned plane in Poland to be wrong. But this is not so. And we know that. “