Russia needs to understand what kind of sanctions the European Union (EU) plans to impose on it before deciding on retaliatory measures. This was announced on February 22 by the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov.
“First you need to understand what is at stake,” he told TASS in response to a question whether Moscow would prepare retaliatory measures.
Earlier in the day, the head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrell, said that the EU countries had agreed on a new package of sanctions against Russia, which “would cause her great damage.” He noted that 351 State Duma deputies, those who, in his words, “voted for the violation of international law and the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine,” as well as 27 more individuals and legal entities, will fall under the sanctions.
In addition, banks that finance operations taking place on the territory of Donbass will fall under the sanctions, but Borrell did not give their names.
In addition, Borrell noted that the sanctions will affect economic relations between the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics (DPR and LPR) and the EU, and the access of the Russian authorities to the financial and capital markets of the EU will be limited.
Borrell stressed that Russian President Vladimir Putin is not on the sanctions list.
Earlier in the day, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced the imposition of sanctions against Rossiya Bank, Genbank, Promsvyazbank, the Black Sea Development and Reconstruction Bank, and the Industrial Savings Bank. In addition, the British Prime Minister announced sanctions against three Russian entrepreneurs – Gennady Timchenko, Boris Rotenberg and Igor Rotenberg.
Restrictive measures include the freezing of assets and a ban on entry into the country.
Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer, in turn, allowed the inclusion of Nord Stream 2 in the package of anti-Russian sanctions, and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said that the country’s Ministry of Economy had received an order to stop the certification of the gas pipeline.
In turn, the Russian Foreign Ministry recalled that Western countries in any case and without reason impose anti-Russian sanctions, as they are accustomed to blaming the Russian side for everything. The head of the department, Sergei Lavrov, pointed out that it was Kiev that actually refused to comply with the Minsk agreements.
The day before, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced Russia’s recognition of the independence of the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics (DNR and LNR). In addition, the Russian leader and heads of the Donbass republics Denis Pushilin and Leonid Pasechnik signed treaties of friendship, cooperation and mutual assistance, which, among other things, provide for the right to build military bases on the territory of the parties and provide military assistance to each other.
Source: IZ
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