Speaking after the EU adopted a 17th sanctions package, Jean-Noel Barrot said that the impact of sanctions had been insufficient so far, and the bloc needed to work with the United States, where Congress has prepared crippling measures should U.S. President Donald Trump decide to pressure Moscow.
“So we must prepare to expand devastating sanctions that could suffocate once and for all Russia’s economy.”
The latest tightening of sanctions comes as Moscow and Kyiv may hold their first peace talks in Istanbul on Thursday since the early days of Russia’s February 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
The countries have also agreed to expand the legal base for their sanctions framework on Russian hybrid threats. One of the new measures will allow the EU to sanction fleets that destroy subsea cables and other physical assets. A further 20 entities and individuals were added to this list.
Barrot, who will be in Turkey on Thursday for a NATO foreign ministers meeting, said he would hold talks in Turkey with U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham on a U.S. sanctions bill he is putting together.
“Russia has found ways to circumvent the blockage imposed by Europe and the United States so closing the tap would grab Russia by the throat,“ he said.
Under a human rights framework, the EU also agreed on Wednesday to place sanctions on judges and prosecutors involved in the cases against Vladimir Kara-Murza as well as Alexei Navalny, who died in an Arctic penal colony in February last year.
The countries have also agreed on an export ban on chemicals used in missile production, the diplomatic sources said.
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