Borrell says sanctions won't stop conflict in Ukraine overnight

they are “working” against RUSSIA, and reports to the contrary are not true, Borrell said. According to him,

EU sanctions will not stop hostilities in Ukraine in a short time, but will create many economic problems for Russia, European diplomat Josep Borrell said at a press conference following a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels. The broadcast was conducted on the website of the European Council.

“Of course, EU sanctions will not stop the conflict in Ukraine overnight, but they should create a lot of economic problems for Russia,” Borrell said.

He stressed that the sanctions against Russia "work", and called reports to the contrary disinformation.

Scholz ruled out the lifting of sanctions in the event of “imposed by Russia” peace conditions Politics

Earlier on July 18, the European Union agreed on another package of sanctions against Russia. it prohibits the import of gold, tightens trade in dual-use goods, and also provides for personal restrictions against one of the vice-premiers, several heads of regions and nine companies, said Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto.

According to Borrell, Europe has no choice but to impose sanctions. Some of their consequences are visible already now, but they will be fully visible in the long term, the HEAD of the supreme diplomacy noted.

The representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, commenting on his words, said that many EU residents felt the effect of anti-Russian sanctions "immediately". Restrictions "appreciated" and the people of Asia, Africa and other remote regions, she said.

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Russian authorities consider Western sanctions illegal. At the same time, Europe, according to Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, "suffers more than others." Because of the sanctions, it will have to buy “expensive American gas instead of affordable Russian gas,” and because of the supply of weapons to Ukraine, it will have to purchase products of the US military-industrial complex in the future , he wrote in an Izvestia column.

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