Reuters announced the idea to include nuclear restrictions in the 10th package of sanctions

The EU could introduce a new package of sanctions against RUSSIA as early as February 24, sources told REUTERS. According to them, Poland and Lithuania insisted on the inclusion of the Russian nuclear sector in it,

Poland and Lithuania intend to seek from the EU the expansion of anti-Russian sanctions, including by including Russia's nuclear sector in the tenth package. This was reported to Reuters by diplomatic sources from these countries.

In addition, the interlocutors of the agency said that the "hawks of the EU" intend to propose a ban on more "Russian propaganda media" and to exclude more Russian banks from the global SWIFT system. “It is increasingly difficult to achieve the necessary unanimity in the EU for new sanctions. However, we will offer an ambitious new package,” one of the sources said.

According to them, the tenth package of EU sanctions should be ready by the anniversary of the start of the conflict - February 24, 2023. As an unnamed Ukrainian diplomat present at the same meeting in Brussels clarified to the agency, sanctions were proposed to be imposed against Rosatom and its leadership. He called the goal of the restrictions "curtailing cooperation between the EU and the Russian nuclear industry."

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Russia  is the largest supplier of enriched uranium to the United States , accounting for more than a quarter of all imports of this product ($644 million) in January-October last year. According to BLOOMBERG, Rosatom and its subsidiaries account for 35% of the world's uranium enrichment.

After the start of the Russian special operation, Kyiv repeatedly demanded the imposition of sanctions against Rosatom and its structures, but neither the EU nor the United States decided to take this step. As Reuters previously reported, the US National Institute of Energy, as well as energy companies Duke Energy and Exelon, urged the White House not to impose sanctions on Russian uranium.

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Hungary, where Rosatom is building two new units for the Paks nuclear power plant, also opposed sanctions against the Russian nuclear industry, Reuters points out. Moscow calls the sanctions imposed against it illegal.

Rosatom is a Russian state corporation that combines assets in the fields of energy, engineering and construction, follows from the data on its website. Rosatom accounts for 20% of all electricity generation in Russia. Rosatom has projects for the construction of 34 nuclear power plants in 12 countries of the world, the state corporation is engaged in all technological chains of the nuclear fuel cycle, from the extraction of natural uranium to the final stage of the life cycle of nuclear facilities.

Enriched uranium is exported from Russia by Rosatom's foreign trade company Techsnabexport (trademark TENEX). In recent years, the company has also imported depleted uranium hexafluoride from Germany and France for processing and subsequent EXPORT abroad.