Germany’s Ambassador to Ukraine does not see the EU applying new economic sanctions on Russia for the Kerch Strait naval attack.

Germany’s Ambassador to Ukraine does not see the EU applying new economic sanctions on Russia for the Kerch Strait naval attack. “There is no consensus to go ahead with sanctions,” Ernst Reichel, the Ambassador, said Wednesday at a sanctions conference organized by Kyiv’s New Europe Center. “The EU debate is less about new sanctions, but about defending existing sanctions,” he said. Asked about EU support for boycotting products from Russia’s Novorossiysk port until freedom of navigation returns to the Azov, he warned: “Excessive demands that have no chance of being fulfilled — they can have a harmful effect on the party making the demands.”