The 27 countries of the European Union (EU), the G7 of the most advanced economies and Australia agreed on friday impose a maximum price of 60 dollars a barrel of Russian oilin order to deprive Moscow of a major source of funding for the invasion of Ukraine.
The measure will take effect on Monday, December 5.next to a embargo from the EU to Russian crudein a new twist in the sanctions imposed by the West against Russia since President Vladimir Putin ordered his troops to invade Ukraine on February 24.
The G7 assured that it intends in this way “prevent Russia from gaining from its aggressive war against Ukraine” and “support the stability in world energy markets“.
The White House affirmed that the European agreement “will help limit Putin’s ability to profit from the oil market to finance a war machine who continues to kill innocent Ukrainians”.
Polanda close ally of Ukraine, wanted the EU to impose a much lower ceiling to speed up the demolition of the Russian economy, and Yermak regretted that this had not happened.
“It would have had to go down to $30 (a barrel) to destroy it faster,” he wrote.
The Russian bombardments against the energy infrastructures of Ukraine deprived millions of families of light, water and heating, at a time of rapid cooling of temperatures due to the arrival of the boreal winter. Russian President Vladimir Putin estimated that these bombings have become “necessary and inevitable in the face of the provocative attacks in Kiev,” the Kremlin said when reporting on Friday a conversation between the Russian president and the head of the German government, Olaf Schölz.
According to Putin, kyiv is responsible for the explosions that partially destroyed the Russian bridge in Crimea at the beginning of October and therefore Moscow is within its rights to bomb Ukraine’s energy infrastructure.
Putin once again complained to Scholz about the Western financial and military support for Ukrainewhich has allowed the former Soviet republic to inflict humiliating defeats on Russia in the biggest European conflict since the end of World War II.
The American President, Joe Bidensaid Thursday that he was “ready to talk” with Putin, but only if the Russian leader sought “a way to end the war” and withdraw his troops from the country.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, He noted that Russia rejected those conditions. “The special military operation is going to continue,” she insisted, using Russia’s official terminology for the offensive in Ukraine.
Ukraine rejects any negotiations with Putin if its territorial integrity is not respectedwhich includes the peninsula of crimeaannexed by Moscow in 2014
Source: Ambito
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