Pending Orbán’s ‘yes’, the embargo would affect the importation of crude oil by ship, and later, that which arrives by pipeline. Sberbank, the largest Russian bank, would exit the Swift system. The 27 will also tighten the siege on the Russian oligarchs and sanction Patriarch Kirill.
In the week in which the Russian aggression against Ukraine will be a hundred days old, and after almost a month of negotiations in the European chancelleries, the 27 heads of State or Government of the EU intend today to agree on a sixth package of sanctions that will affect