The EU needs to pick up the pace with sanctioning
Russia, says Ukrainian sanctions expert Vladislav Flazyuk.
In an interview with Euronews, Flazyuk spoke about new EU
sanctions against the so-called Russian shadow fleet of ships that
Moscow is exploiting to skirt restrictions on transporting oil and
fuel.
At this very moment, we should start working on the
next census package and that should be adopted no later
than the end of February, and that should include some
more meaningful measures like sectoral sanctions and some others.
So thanks, but that is not enough.
Flazuk added that Kiev wants to see additional financial as
well as energy sanctions.
We are trying now to extend the cooperation with the
Commissioner offices and with the DG, different DGS on different
sanction stream.
That would include financial sanction, that would include of course,
energy sanctions, especially the LNG and especially the Ross outcome
sanctions, and that will of course include the Kayakala's office
on the individual designations.
Well, Mr.
President, the Biden administration is considering implementing harsher Russian oil
sanctions ahead of Donald Trump's term, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday.
Oil revenues are a crucial source of funding for Russia's
war machine and have been repeatedly targeted by Western sanctions.
President-elect Trump clearly said that the this is the oil
revenues which helps Putin to continue his war.
So I think that all the proper understanding of situation
is already very much there and I'm hoping that we
would continue our cooperation with the EUS government on the
further sanctions measures targeted against the terrorist regimes.
China and India are currently the main buyers of Russian
oil, which is often refined in the countries and sold
into the EU market with a different label.