New tightening in Moscow with the European Union accelerating the approval of the tenth package of sanctions against Russia. “With nine packages of sanctions in place, the Russian economy is in a tailspin. And to keep that pressure going, we are proposing a tenth package of measures. With new trade bans and controls on technology exports to Russia. This package is worth a total of 11 We propose, among other things, restrictions on the export of more electronic components used in Russian weapons systems, such as drones, missiles, helicopters”, said the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, in the debate in the plenary of the European Parliament Parliament about Ukraine a year after the invasion.
“But there are also hundreds of Iranian-made drones used by Russia on battlefields in Ukraine,” he added. Those related to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. It is our duty to sanction them and confront Iran in supplying drones and transferring know-how to build production sites in Russia.”
At the same time came a new attack from Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov: “The policy of Washington and its European allies to turn Ukraine into an anti-Russian stronghold is reaching a point of no return,” the minister said. speaking in Parliament. The minister, quoted by Tass, underlined that “for many years” the West has had a “policy of containing Russia, also through the expansion of NATO to Russian borders and through the transformation of fraternal Ukraine into anti-Russia, into a Redoubt Russophobic military”.
Source: IL Tempo
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