EU imposes sanctions directly on Putin and Lavrov – SME.sk

BRUSSELS. EU Foreign Minister Josep Borrell confirms EU foreign ministers add Russian president on Friday Vladimir Putin and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Lavrova to the EU sanctions list for invasion Russia in Ukraine. The AFP agency informed about it.

Putin, Lavrov and Duma deputies

“President Putin and Foreign Minister Lavrov are on the list of sanctioned people along with the remaining members of the State Duma who support this aggression,” said Russia in Ukraine, Borrell told reporters after a meeting of EU ministers in Brussels.

EU presidents and prime ministers in Brussels agreed on Friday night to freeze Putin and Lavrov’s assets in European countries.

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These targeted measures are part of a comprehensive package of sanctions that will have “massive consequences” for Russia and its sectors of energy, finance and transport, dual-use goods, as well as export controls, export financing and visa policy.

Johnson called for Russia to be disconnected from the SWIFT system

Sanctions on Putin and Lavrov are also being prepared by the United Kingdom, the British Prime Minister said Boris Johnson.

According to a spokesman for his office, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in a phone call with the leaders ONTO in the context of Russian invasion told Ukraine on Friday that Putin was “engaging in a revanchist mission to restore order after the Cold War”, his ambitions did not have to stop there, and the current situation is a Euro-Atlantic crisis with global consequences, the news portal reported. BBC.

The Downing Street statement also mentions the SWIFT payment system, which Ukraine is calling for to cut off Russia. “The prime minister has called on leaders to take immediate action against SWIFT to cause maximum pain to President Putin and his regime,” the text said.

Putin’s absurd reasons for aggression

The European Union has previously stated that Putin is about to destroy Ukraine and that his actions are comparable to those of the Nazis during World War II.

“It basically wants to destroy Ukraine. It wants to take away Ukraine’s independence. It wants to cause harm and suffering to the Ukrainians. This is absolutely inhuman,” said Peter Stano, a spokesman for the European External Action Service.

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Stano told reporters in Brussels that Putin declares that he wants to rid Ukraine of alleged Nazism, but that he “behaves like a Nazi”.

According to him, Vladimir Putin often declares that he wants to prevent genocide in Ukraine, which is, however, nonsense, according to Stan, because “just one genocide (he himself) is carrying out or is going to carry it out”.