The European Union will impose new sanctions on Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, targeting its oil industry, more banks and disinformation officials, the EU’s top diplomat said on Tuesday. “We are working on the sixth sanctions package, which aims to exclude more banks from the SWIFT system, list disinformation actors and tackle oil imports,” said Josep Borrell, the chief. of European diplomacy, on Twitter. According to diplomats, the new sanctions would notably concern Sberbank, the main Russian bank, which would join the list of Russian banks already excluded from the SWIFT payment system. Oil embargo Josep Borrell and other EU officials said the measures proposed by the Commission would be presented by its President, Ursula von der Leyen, on Wednesday. These sanctions, which will be subject to the approval of the 27 EU member states, should include a ban on imports of Russian oil by the end of the year. An embargo on Russian oil would deprive Moscow of an important source of income, but this measure is not unanimous within the Twenty-Seven. Hungary in particular expressed its opposition to it. Russian President Vladimir Putin warned the West on Tuesday that he himself may halt Russian oil and natural gas exports in response to EU and US sanctions New Russian assault on Mariupol Des Dozens of people arrived safely in Zaporizhia, a city still under the control of the Ukrainian authorities, on Tuesday after being evacuated from Mariupol where they had taken refuge for weeks in the Azovstal factory, against which the Russian army launched an assault . Visibly exhausted, the evacuees from the port city, targeted by the Russian army since the beginning of the offensive launched on February 24, were dropped off by buses in the parking lot of a shopping center in Zaporijjia, a city also located in southern Ukraine, not far from the front lines. More than 200 civilians are still trapped in the Azovstal steelworks, according to the mayor of Mariupol, Vadim Boitchenko, while some 100,000 civilians are still in the city devastated by the siege and repeated bombardments by Russian forces. “Thanks to the (evacuation) operation, 101 women, men, children and elderly people were finally able to leave the shelters under Azovstal and see the light of day after two months,” said Osnat Lubrani, humanitarian coordinator for the ‘UN for Ukraine. The United Nations and the Red Cross coordinated a five-day operation, which began on April 29, to evacuate women, children and the elderly from the factory. Quoted by the Ukrainian press, a representative of the Mariupol police said that the Russian army launched a new assault on the Azovstal factory on Tuesday, after Russian aircraft bombed the site during the night, in violation of the ceasefire -fire. Azovstal last bastion of resistance The Russian Ministry of Defense said for its part that the Ukrainian forces had taken advantage of the ceasefire to establish new firing positions, positions that the pro-Russian forces “were starting to destroy”. The Azovstal factory is the last bastion of Ukrainian resistance in Mariupol. Tatiana Bouchlanova, a 64-year-old resident of Mariupol, said she was now so used to Russian shelling that she no longer reacted when shells exploded. “You wake up in the morning and you cry. You cry at night. I have no idea where to go,” she said, wiping away her tears as she sat near a blackened building. Exchanges between Putin and Macron Russian President Vladimir Putin told his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday that Western countries could pressure the Ukrainian authorities to stop “atrocities” against civilians, Russian official press reported, quoting the Kremlin. During a telephone interview of more than two hours, Emmanuel Macron called on Vladimir Putin to allow the continuation of the evacuations of Ukrainian civilians who had taken refuge in the Azovstal factory in Mariupol, the Elysee said for its part. The French president also said he was ready to “work with the competent international organizations to help lift the Russian blockade of Ukrainian food exports through the Black Sea”, declared the Elysée. It was the first meeting between the two leaders since March 29. During the telephone interview with Emmanuel Macron, Vladimir Putin insisted on the role that the West can play in order to put an end to “war crimes (and) the massive bombardments of the cities of Donbass”, in the east of Ukraine, controlled by pro-Russian separatists. “The West should help put an end to these atrocities by using its influence on the authorities in Kyiv and by stopping arms deliveries to Ukraine,” the Ria agency wrote, quoting the Kremlin. Vladimir Putin also told Emmanuel Macron that he remained open to dialogue with the Ukrainian government, Russian news agency Interfax reported.
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