The EU approves “one of the most serious rounds” of penalties against Russia and the objectives

The European Union (EU) has reached an agreement about the 18th round of penalties against Russia in retaliation for the war in Ukraine, including a series of measures designed to further undermine the Russian oil and energy industry. “The EU has just approved one of its most serious penalties of penalties against Russia,” announced Kaja Kallas, head of foreign policy of the European blockade.

The European Union (EU) has reached an agreement about the 18th round of penalties against Russia in retaliation for the war in Ukraine, including a series of measures designed to further undermine the Russian oil and energy industry. “The EU has just approved one of its most serious penalties of penalties against Russia,” announced Kaja Kallas, head of foreign policy of the European blockade.

The new package reduces the ceiling of the Russian oil price to $ 47.60 per barrel, they said diplomats in Reuters. The value is much lower than the international oil quote by about $ 70 by the Brent barrel.

“We will continue to increase war costs, so that aggression ceases to become the only way for Moscow,” added Kallas on Friday morning (18).

The agreement also includes the prohibition of transactions relating to the Russian Stream Russian tube and the Russian financial sector.

“I greet the agreement on our 18th pack of penalties against Russia. We are attacking the core of the Russian war machine. We are aiming for its banking and industrial banking and industrial sectors and we are including a new dynamic roof for oil prices”, wrote the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen a X.

Also on the social network, the French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot celebrated: “This morning we are, we are adopting unprecedented penalties against Russia and the countries that support him. France has played a decisive role. Together with the United States, we will force Vladimir Putin to one ceased the fire,” he said.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky celebrated the news and said that the new round “arrives in the good moment”.

The reluctance of Slovakia to approve this measure delayed the agreement. Bratislava has requested Brussels guarantees on a separate European level to gradually reduce the imports of Russian gas and get rid completely until 1 January 2028.

The United States want to accelerate the delivery of weapons

Thursday (17), the United States announced that they are working to quickly provide weapons to Ukraine as part of the plan presented by Donald Trump at the beginning of this week and take into consideration the sale of Patriot aerial defense systems from their stock, said Washington’s envoy to NATO organization of the North Atlantic treatise).

“I think things are really advancing very quickly,” Matthew Whitaker, American ambassador, told some journalists. “But I can’t confirm when all this will be completed,” he added.

NATO commander in Europe, the American general Alexus Grynkewich added: “We are already in the preparatory phase” to send the first Patriot systems.

President Donald Trump announced a project on Monday, in collaboration with NATO secretary general Mark Rutte, for European allies and Canada to buy US weapons, including Advanced Patriot Systems for Ukrainian.

Several European countries, such as Germany, Norway, the Netherlands, Denmark and Sweden, have declared that they were willing to participate in the project. It remains to know how to bring them quickly to Ukraine, which is bombed daily by the Russian forces.

There is also an “conversation in progress” on the possibility that the United States sell the patriots already available in their military titles, said the American ambassador. “We will never put the United States in a strategic disadvantage and ensure that we have everything we need,” he said. “I think we all recognize the urgent needs that Ukraine has, today and immediately on the battlefield to protect its cities,” he added.

Another option considered is that the European countries send the systems they have in their inventories, which would therefore be replaced by the United States. Whitaker also discussed the revision in progress of the Pentagon on the global sending of troops, a topic that generates concern in European countries, which fears a retirement from the United States from the continent.

The United States are in “daily contact” with its European allies before possible ads at the end of September or in early October, underlined the country’s ambassador. “We agree that there would be no surprises or gaps in the strategic structure of Europe,” he said.

(With information from Reuters and AFP)

Source: Terra

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