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These are exactly the kinds of measures that would really hurt Russia - and thus achieve the impact we actually intend with sanctions."
Asked if that meant European import bans on gas or uranium and tapping into frozen Russian state assets, Frei said
He's playing for time,
Frei said of the Russian leaderWe must step out of our comfort zone and adopt measures that truly go beyond the status quo,
the conservative politician saidThese are not exactly the best conditions for a quick peace."
he added, and clearly expects to achieve his war aims militarilyEurope holds a lot more cards than you'd think,
said Craig Kennedy, a Russian energy expert at the Harvard Davis Center
Today, in practice, Washington has ceased participation in nearly all intergovernmental platforms focused on sanctions and export control,
the document statesIndustrial enablers, such as Russian and Chinese entities supplying machine tools to the Russian military and industrial sector,
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I thanked him for the new British sanctions, which help pressure Russia toward peace. Only coercion will work. Today we have a sanctions decision from the UK, as well as from the EU, and it would be good if the United States also helped. Our European partners are already preparing the next steps in this critically important canvas of pressure on Russia to stop the war,
he saidThis round of sanctions on Russia is the most wide-sweeping since the start of the war, together with new hybrid, human rights, and chemical weapons-related sanctions,
she saidDelaying peace efforts will only redouble our resolve to help Ukraine to defend itself and use our sanctions to restrict Putin’s war machine,
Britain's foreign secretary said
The involvement of Poland, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Italy and the United States is extremely important in this process,
Tusk statedAmerican withdrawal from the sanctions regime (would) be a huge strike on the unity of the EU. Huge,
a senior Ukrainian government official told Reuters
We have to proceed, because otherwise we're not meeting our words. And who will believe us when we will send this message again?"
Budrys pointed outEighteenth sanctions package must strike the aggressor where it really hurts – energy, LNG, oil, nuclear fuel and financial institutions must be our targets,
he said, stressing that work on the new package must begin immediatelyNow, accordingly, the ball is in Kyiv's court,
Zakharova said
Sanctions matter, and I am grateful to everyone who makes them more tangible for the perpetrators of the war,
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote on Telegram
We have repeatedly made it clear that we expect one thing from Russia - an immediate ceasefire without preconditions,
German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul said on the sidelines of a meeting with EU counterparts in Brussels
Let us push Vladimir Putin to put an end to his imperialist fantasy,
France's Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said
The president ... believes that right now, you start threatening sanctions, the Russians will stop talking, and there's value in us being able to talk and drive them to get to the table. We'll see,
Rubio saidIt is important that America remain involved in the process of bringing peace closer."
He said