The European Union has decided to introduce a new thematic regime of sanctions aimed at combating hybrid threats from Russia. About this reported “Radio Liberty” journalist Rikard Jozvyak on the X social network (Twitter).
According to him, on October 2, EU ambassadors will agree on a new regime of sanctions, which will be officially approved next week. This mod doesn’t have specific names yet, but they will be added later.
Initially, it was planned to introduce a general regime of sanctions, but later it was decided to focus specifically on Russian hybrid threats.
EU sanctions against Russia
The European Union has already imposed numerous sanctions against Russia in response to its invasion of Ukraine. They are aimed at the task of economic pressure in order to force Moscow to stop military aggression. The main areas of sanctions include:
- Financial sanctions: restrictions on transactions with the central bank of Russia, blocking of assets of banks and oligarchs, prohibition of certain financial services.
- Energy sanctions: restrictions on the import of Russian oil and gas, a ban on investments in the energy sector.
- Trade sanctions: prohibition of exports to Russia of goods and technologies that can be used for military purposes.
- Transport sanctions: closure of airspace for Russian aircraft and restriction of access to European ports for Russian vessels.
- Visa restrictions: reducing the issuance of visas to Russian citizens.
- Personal sanctions: restrictions against Russian politicians, oligarchs and other persons involved in making decisions about aggression against Ukraine.
