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Umoja wa Ulaya umetoa kibali chake cha mwisho kwa vikwazo vipya kwa mafuta ya Urusi na benki kuu ya Sberbank, kama adhabu ya vita
Viongozi wa Umoja wa Ulaya walikubaliana Alhamisi, June 2, zuio la uagizaji mafuta ghafi ambalo litaanza kutekelezwa kikamilifu ifikapo mwisho wa mwaka 2022.
Vikwazo vipya pia vimejumuisha kupiga marufuku vyombo vingine vitatu vya habari vya serikali ya Urusi na kuiondoa benki kubwa zaidi ya nchini humo Sberbank, katika wa mfumo wa Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT).
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The European Union has given its final approval to new sanctions on Russian oil and top bank Sberbank, after much wrangling with Hungary, as punishment for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s February 24 invasion of Ukraine.
EU leaders, used to plentiful supplies of Russian energy, agreed on Thursday to a partial embargo on crude oil imports that will take full effect by the end of 2022. Hungary and two other landlocked Central European states secured exemptions for the pipeline imports they rely on.
The sixth round of sanctions also included banning three more Russian state media outlets and cutting off Russia’s biggest bank, Sberbank, from the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) system.
The war brought ties between Russia and the West to new lows and the latest EU sanctions will cut 90 percent of Russian oil imports to the bloc of 27 nations and 450 million people.
“This will reduce Russia’s capacity to finance its war,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said of the measures.
One prominent person who will not be blacklisted despite plans to the contrary, however, is the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, a close Putin ally. Hungary’s opposition blocked the necessary EU unanimity.
Hungary escalated demands in recent weeks over the oil embargo. To win Budapest over, other EU countries agreed to water it down by exempting oil delivered by the Druzhba pipeline going to Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic.
Source: Al Jazeera
Viongozi wa Umoja wa Ulaya walikubaliana Alhamisi, June 2, zuio la uagizaji mafuta ghafi ambalo litaanza kutekelezwa kikamilifu ifikapo mwisho wa mwaka 2022.
Vikwazo vipya pia vimejumuisha kupiga marufuku vyombo vingine vitatu vya habari vya serikali ya Urusi na kuiondoa benki kubwa zaidi ya nchini humo Sberbank, katika wa mfumo wa Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT).
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The European Union has given its final approval to new sanctions on Russian oil and top bank Sberbank, after much wrangling with Hungary, as punishment for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s February 24 invasion of Ukraine.
EU leaders, used to plentiful supplies of Russian energy, agreed on Thursday to a partial embargo on crude oil imports that will take full effect by the end of 2022. Hungary and two other landlocked Central European states secured exemptions for the pipeline imports they rely on.
The sixth round of sanctions also included banning three more Russian state media outlets and cutting off Russia’s biggest bank, Sberbank, from the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) system.
The war brought ties between Russia and the West to new lows and the latest EU sanctions will cut 90 percent of Russian oil imports to the bloc of 27 nations and 450 million people.
“This will reduce Russia’s capacity to finance its war,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said of the measures.
One prominent person who will not be blacklisted despite plans to the contrary, however, is the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, a close Putin ally. Hungary’s opposition blocked the necessary EU unanimity.
Hungary escalated demands in recent weeks over the oil embargo. To win Budapest over, other EU countries agreed to water it down by exempting oil delivered by the Druzhba pipeline going to Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic.
Source: Al Jazeera