He Kremlin said Tuesday that the prolongation of the sanctions of the European Union (EU) against Russia for war in Ukraine “nothing changes.”
According to the spokesman for the Russian presidency, Dmitri Peskov, the measure is not “new” and “nothing changes.”
“The EU continues to apply sanctions. More and more people understand that it is a double -edged edge weapon. Europeans suffer from these sanctions. We continue to qualify them as illegal restrictions that contradict international law ”he added.
The foreign ministers of the European Union agreed on Monday to prolong the sanctions imposed on Russia After overcoming Hungary reserves.
The unanimity of the twenty -seven was a necessary step to maintain the restrictive measures that, otherwise, were going to conclude on January 31.
The EU has been maintained since 2014, when Russia took the Ukrainian Peninsula of Crimea, sanctions to Moscow that is renewing every six months and has been expanding, above all, with the war in Ukraine.
They include both average against personalities and companies.
The EU is currently working on what would be the sixteenth package of sanctions against Russia, which hopes to be ready for the third anniversary of the start of the contest, which is fulfilled on February 24.
Source: Gestion

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