The international community plans to impose new sanctions against Russia before the escalation of the offensive against Ukraine. This was agreed at the Extraordinary Council on Foreign Affairs of the European Union that took place this Friday afternoon.
Josep Borrell has explained that, although at the moment the sanctions have not been decided, it is “studying the inclusion of more banks in the list of entities disconnected from Swift”, the global network to process payments between some countries and others.
The High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy has highlighted in an appearance before the media that these are “targeted sanctions, whose The goal is not to hit the population, but to stop the Kremlin’s war machine.”
He has also stated that “we must prevent Russian oligarchs escape these sanctions, locate them and paralyze their assets because they live off corruption”.
Thus, Borrell has called on the Russian president to stop an invasion for which only he is responsible. “This is not the West against Russia. It is not two sides that fight. It is Putin’s war and only he can stop it,” he added.
In this sense, he recalled that Russia has been “internationally isolated” because “the world is on the right side of history.” “Putin wants to divide us, but he is achieving the opposite. We are more united than ever. The world supports Ukraine,” he has sentenced her.
Regarding the latest offensive launched by the Kremlin, which has taken control of the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant after bombing it, Borrell has warned that Russia “has to respect the security perimeter of the nuclear plants because the security of the entire continent is at stake.”
Source: Lasexta
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