Eu Fee President Ursula von der Leyen delivers a observation following the belief of an EU Overseas Ministers’ assembly at the disaster in Ukraine, in Brussels, Belgium February 22, 2022.
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The Eu Union will move forward with extra sanctions in opposition to Russia on Thursday, following Moscow’s resolution to invade Ukraine.
“President Putin is answerable for bringing warfare again to Europe. In those darkish hours, the Eu Union stands at the side of Ukraine and its other folks,” Eu Fee President Ursula von der Leyen stated early Thursday.
“What we face is an extraordinary act of aggression by means of the Russian management in opposition to a sovereign, unbiased nation,” she added.
“Russia’s goal isn’t just Donbass, the objective isn’t just Ukraine, the objective is balance in Europe and the entire global rules-based order. For that, we can hang Russia responsible.”
The 27 heads of state of the EU will accumulate for an emergency assembly in Brussels at 8 p.m. native time on Thursday, the place Von der Leyen is because of provide a brand new set of sanctions in opposition to Moscow.
Those will goal strategic sectors of the Russian financial system by means of blockading get entry to to key applied sciences and markets. They are going to additionally glance to “weaken Russia’s financial base and its capability to modernize” and “freeze Russian property within the EU and forestall the get entry to of Russian banks to the Eu monetary marketplace,” von der Leyen additionally stated.
Previous Thursday morning, Eu Council President Charles Michel, who might be chairing the assembly in Brussels, stated the heads of state might be adopting those measures “impulsively.”
Thursday’s plan to undertake extra sanctions in opposition to Russia comes after an preliminary bundle of measures used to be offered previous this week. In it, the EU went so far as sanctioning Russia’s Protection Ministry and the Putin’s leader of body of workers.
