The new EU sanction package will target more than 1,300 Russian people and entities. The new package of sanctions proposed on Wednesday by the European Commission will target more than 1,300 people and entities, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said. “This list targets key... #EUsanctionsforRussia #JosepBorrell #SanctionsAgainstRussia
Half of the G20 countries do not support the US and European sanctions against Russia. Also, these states oppose the Russian Federation’s isolation, according to Bloomberg. It is noted that the G20, unlike the G7, does not actively support Ukraine in its fight against Russian aggr... #G20 #SanctionsAgainstRussia
The EU has agreed on the seventh package of sanctions against the Russian Federation. At a meeting on Monday, EU foreign ministers agreed on a new sanctions package against Russia, stated the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Hungary, Peter Szijártó. The new sanctions package mainly consi... #EUsanctions #EUsanctionsPackage #SanctionsAgainstRussia
New EU sanctions against Russia will include Sberbank. The new EU sanctions against the Russian Federation will consist of stricter restrictions on Russian Sberbank. In addition, the Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company will also be included in the sanct... #EUsanctions #SanctionsAgainstRussia #SberbankRussia
Only six EU countries have frozen significant amounts of Russian assets. Germany, France, Ireland, Austria, Belgium, and Luxembourg have frozen Russian assets totaling €13.9B. This is almost the entire amount of frozen Russian assets in the EU, according to a statement fro... #DidierReynders #RussianAssets #SanctionsAgainstRussia
Ukraine demands US and EU banks stop working with Russia. At least four Western banks, JPMorgan, HSBC, Citigroup, and Crédit Agricole, received letters from Ukraine demanding they cease cooperation with Russia in the oil sector. Ukraine justified its positi... #BankingWithAgressor #OlegUstenko #SanctionsAgainstRussia #StopWorkingWithRussia
The Next EU Russian sanctions package will be announced soon. According to Bloomberg, the European Union plans to propose a new package of sanctions against Russia over its war in Ukraine in the coming weeks. Earlier this month it was proposed to include restric... #EUsanctions #EUsanctionsPackage #SanctionsAgainstRussia
Ukraine needs more Russian sanctions and more weapons. Following Sunday’s missile strikes on Kyiv that targeted a residential building, the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Dmytro Kuleba, called on the leaders of the Group of Seven to strengthen ... #DmytroKuleba #Sanctions #SanctionsAgainstRussia #WarinUkraine #WeaponforUkraine
OPEC wants to suspend the agreement with Russia and open doors for Saudi Arabia and UAE. Some OPEC members are exploring the possibility of suspending Russia’s participation in an oil-production deal while they are under Western sanctions. At the same time, a partial European ban has beg... #OilProduction #OPEC #SanctionsAgainstRussia
EU ambassadors have again failed to agree on the sixth package of sanctions against Russia. The permanent representatives of the EU members at Monday’s meeting again were not able to reach an agreement on the sixth package of sanctions against Russia. “The meeting of EU ambassad... #EUambassadors #EUsummit #RobertaMetsola #SanctionsAgainstRussia
The EU will remove the pipeline oil ban from the sixth package of sanctions. The European Union has proposed banning marine oil imports from Russia, but has postponed an embargo on pipeline oil to overcome a sanction blockade by a few countries, reported Bloomberg. The Europea... #EuropeanCommission #EUsanctions #RussianOilEmbargo #SanctionsAgainstRussia
Russia will not be able to service its public debt in dollars. The US Treasury Department has announced that it will not renew the general license that temporarily allowed Russia to make payments to service its foreign debt in dollars while under sanctions. “The ... #RUssianDebt #RussianPublicDebt #SanctionsAgainstRussia #USTreasury
The US will likely block Russian debt payments. On Wednesday, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen signaled that US officials would probably end up carving out a loophole in Western sanctions that have allowed Russia to continue making payments on i... #DebttoRussianBank #JanetYellen #RussiaDefault #SanctionsAgainstRussia
The Russian energy embargo agreement is coming in the next couple of days. European Union member states are still trying to resolve some outstanding issues but most likely will agree on a sixth sanctions package against Russia in the coming days, said German Foreign Ministe... #AnnalenaBaerbock #EUenergy #RussianENergyEMbargo #SanctionsAgainstRussia
Procrastination with the adoption of the sixth package of sanctions is unacceptable. Delay with adopting the sixth sanctions package is intolerable, and all arguments against introducing the proposed oil embargo mechanism are far-fetched, stated Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba. All t... #DmytroKuleba #EUenergy #EUsanctions #Hungary #RussianOilEmbargo #SanctionsAgainstRussia
Russian assets in Ukraine will be transferred to the state. At today’s meeting, the Cabinet of Ministers approved a document according to which Russian assets in Ukraine will be transferred to the state, stated Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal. According to ... #RussianAssets #SanctionsAgainstRussia
Zelenskyy calls on Europe to abandon Russian oil as soon as possible. President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy called on Europe to give up Russian oil as soon as possible during a speech to the Danish parliament. “Long before this war, it was obvious that humanit... #BanRussianOil #RussianOil #SanctionsAgainstRussia #Zelenskyy
The EBRD moves forward with action against Russia and Belarus. The Board of Directors of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has agreed with a management proposal to take steps in responding to the Russian-led invasion of Ukraine. Governors will... #BelarusSanctions #ebrd #EBRDsanctions #SanctionsAgainstRussia
The World Bank has suspended all programs in Russia and Belarus. The World Bank said it had stopped all programs in Russia and Belarus with immediate effect, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine and “hostilities against the people of Ukraine.” In a... #SanctionsAgainstRussia #Ukrainewar #worldbank
New sanctions against Russia and additional fighter jets for Ukraine. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba and US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken discussed further sanctions against Russia and additional fighter jets for Ukraine, announced Kuleba. During a telep... #RussianAgression #SanctionsAgainstRussia
Britain places sanctions against five Russian banks and three businesspeople. On Tuesday, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced the imposition of sanctions against Russia after its recognition of the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics. The sanctions will affe... #BorisJohnson #SanctionsAgainstRussia #UKsanctions
Russia does not give a s…t about western sanctions. Russian Ambassador to Sweden, Viktor Tatarintsev, stated undiplomatically that there is no fear in Russia regarding potential Western sanctions for further military action in Ukraine. He told a Swedis... #Sanctions #SanctionsAgainstRussia
“No knockout, but new U.S. sanctions add to Russia’s ‘slow destruction,’ ” headlined a Reuters analysis out of London. Based on interviews with market participants, the reporters write of Washington’s sanction package: “Its move to target Moscow’s main funding avenue... #SanctionsAgainstRussia #ussanctions
