The EU has still not reached an agreement on the ninth package of sanctions against Russia. “It’s a joke”

The sanctions were to cover three Russian . It was planned to introduce banning transactions with the Russian Regional Development Bank. The EU also wants to cut off Russia’s access to drones. Export restrictions are also to cover chemicals, especially those acting on the nervous system, as well as electronics and computer parts used by the Russian war machine. it also proposed to impose restrictions on the mining sector.

The European Union cannot agree on sanctions

In addition, the EU’s “blacklist” was to include military personnel, ministers, members of the State Duma and other companies from the defense sector, and above all, people responsible for Russia’s brutal and deliberate rocket attacks on civilians, the kidnapping of children to Russia and the theft of Ukrainian products.

According to information from the Brussels correspondent of Polish Radio, however, there have been proposals among the ambassadors of EU countries to exclude from the EU sanctions, e.g. steel. “It’s a joke,” commented one of the diplomats in an interview with Beata Płomecka. Recall that the sanctions were originally supposed to be adopted on Friday.

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Steel and oligarchs a bone of contention

In turn, at the first meeting, the ambassadors proposed to exclude from the restrictions, inter alia, the agricultural sector and compressed natural gas from processing.

After the meeting, Paweł Jabłoński, deputy head of the company, reported that work on the sanctions was moving forward and that the list of discrepancies was shortening, although he admitted that they still existed. He emphasized that Poland did not agree to exemptions, and if so, they should be very precisely defined.