The head of the European Commission von der Leyen: Russian ships will be banned from entering the ports of the European Union The European Commission proposes to ban the import of coal, timber, cement, seafood from Russia. Russian ships will be banned from entering European ports. The EU is also exploring the possibility of sanctions against oil imports announced six proposals for a new package of sanctions against Russia” />
The EU will ban coal imports from Russia under the fifth package of sanctions. This was announced by the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, voicing proposals for restrictions.
“Firstly, we will impose a ban on the import of coal from Russia in the amount of €4 billion a year. This will deprive Russia of another important source of income,»,— she said.
In total, the new package includes six main areas, in addition to the coal import ban, it includes:
- banning transactions with four Russian banks, including VTB;
- ban on the export of quantum computers, semiconductors, transport equipment to Russia;
- ban on imports of timber, cement, seafood, spirits from Russia;
- ban on Russian companies participating in public procurement in EU member states.
< li>a ban on Russian ships entering the ports of the European Union (exceptions will be the transportation of agricultural products and food products, as well as energy carriers) and the activities of Russian and Belarusian motor transport companies;
In addition , noted the head of the EC, the European Union will expand the black lists of Russians, specific persons will be named later.
“We are working on additional sanctions, including on oil imports,” — she added.
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CNBC, citing sources, previously wrote that EU restrictions would include aircraft leasing, export and import of aviation fuel, but von der Leyen did not name these measures.
The European Union decided to tighten sanctions against Russia after the appearance on April 3 of photos and videos from the Ukrainian city of Bucha, which depicted corpses. In Kyiv, they said that these were the bodies of civilians. The Russian Defense Ministry called the materials a provocation and noted that during the stay in the city of the Russian military, who left on March 30, “not a single local resident was injured.” Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called the distribution of photos from Bucha a staged and “fake attack”.
The EU approved the last package of anti-Russian sanctions in mid-March. Among them were bans on new investments in the Russian energy sector and the supply of European equipment for this industry, as well as on the import of luxury goods into Russia. The list of Russians whose assets were frozen in the EU jurisdiction has also been replenished.
Press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov said that Moscow was subjected to “the biggest sanctions burden in history”, the “craze of sanctions hobbies” continues; .
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