This reduction, which will be implemented by the end of the year, “Will remove a huge source of funding from the war machine” Russiansaid the President of the European Council, Charles Michel.
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They agreed. The 27 member countries of the European Union approved Monday, May 30, in the evening, an embargo on Russian oil covering more than “two-thirds” of their imports from this country, announced the President of the European Council, Charles Michel. This reduction, which will be implemented by the end of the year, “Will remove a huge source of funding from the war machine” Russian and exercise “maximum pressure” on Moscow to urge it to end the war, he claimed on Twitter.
Agreement to ban export of Russian oil to the EU.
This immediately covers more than 2/3 of oil imports from Russia, cutting a huge source of financing for its war machine.
Maximum pressure on Russia to end the war.
— Charles Michel (@eucopresident) May 30, 2022
The Twenty-Seven met in Brussels to discussa sixth package of sanctions against Moscowwhose a plan for a gradual embargo on Russian oil, so far blocked by Hungary. A little earlier, theukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had urged the countries of the European Union to “largest unit” to allow “the adoption” new sanctions against Russia. “Europe must show its strength. Because Russia sees only strength as an argument. (…) It is time for you not to be divided, not fragments, but a united whole”he said in a video message broadcast during an extraordinary EU summit in Brussels.