EU High Representative outlines details of 14th package of sanctions against Russia

Josep Borrell, the European Union's High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, has named the economic sectors covered by the fourteenth package of sanctions against Russia, approved on 20 June.

Source: Borrell on Twitter (X), European Pravda reports

Details: The diplomat said that the 14th package of EU sanctions against Russia is "a powerful set of individual and sectoral measures to undermine Russia's war efforts against Ukraine.".

Quote: "It targets: the military-industrial defence complex; financial services; the energy sector; sanction circumvention; war crimes, including entities engaged in the deportation of Ukrainian children." 

Details: The top EU diplomat noted that the new sanctions are aimed at "making it harder for Putin's government to sustain its war of aggression" and reaffirmed the EU's support for Ukraine.

Background: 

• The EU countries agreed on the 14th package of sanctions against Russia, in particular its liquefied natural gas (LNG) sector, in response to the Kremlin's aggression against Ukraine.
• Earlier, the media reported that Germany was hampering the 14th package of sanctions against Russia by expanding measures that would have forced EU companies to guarantee that their customers would not be able to sell sanctioned goods to Russia.
• As part of the 14th sanctions package, the European Commission proposed, for the first time, targeting several liquefied natural gas projects and banning the transshipment of Russian LNG from the EU to third countries.

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