The Foreign Ministers of the Twenty-seven will send more weapons to Kiev to support the Ukrainian army
The statements of Russian President Vladimir Putin will have consequences. The head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrell, warned of this yesterday and it was confirmed this morning when member states assured that they are preparing a new set of sanctions against Moscow. The mobilization of 300,000 reservists, the referenda in the occupied territories and the threat of the use of nuclear weapons are a red line that the European Union (EU) does not want to tolerate.
«Russia has chosen the path of confrontation (…). The EU strongly condemns the plans to organize illegal referendums to annex the areas of Donetsk, Kherson and Luhansk,” said the joint statement of the Twenty-seven. Russia’s plans are nothing but “another violation of Ukraine’s independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity,” it added. For this reason, the EU will adopt a new set of sanctions against the country “as soon as possible”, which will be applied in consultation with the allied countries. Likewise, the text points out that the EU will “never recognize” the occupied territories as part of Russia.
Putin’s latest speech, in which he assured Moscow could use nuclear weapons, “poses a threat to Europe and the world (…), but they do not break our determination to support Ukraine for as long as it takes.” In addition, Europe plans to “reaffirm” its commitment to Kiev by sending more weapons to the Ukrainian military.
Since the start of the war, the EU has imposed economic and diplomatic sanctions against Russia, as well as individual punishments against people closely related to the Kremlin leadership. The latest European measures against Moscow include the suspension of visas with Russia and the veto on coal and oil imports -with some exceptions-. While the twenty-seven have not yet specified what the new round of sanctions will include, there has been discussion for weeks about imposing a limit on Russian gas imported into the EU. The move, which the member states most dependent on Russian gas dislike, would limit Moscow’s profits and its ability to finance the war in Ukraine.
Source: La Verdad
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