Poland and Lithuania want to lower the price cap on Russian oil and target its nuclear sector under new EU sanctions against Moscow and Belarus for the war in Ukraine, two senior diplomats said.
The EU’s leading Russia hawks will propose that the bloc bans more “Russian propaganda” media outlets and cut more Russian banks from the SWIFT global messaging system.
“It is more and more difficult to get the necessary unanimity in the EU for more sanctions. Nonetheless, we will propose an ambitious new package,” one of the diplomats told the Reuters news agency anonymously.
They said the 10th EU package of sanctions since Russia attacked Ukraine should be ready in time for the first anniversary of the invasion on February 24.
Russia has both condemned EU sanctions and dismissed their impact since launching what it calls its “special military operation” in Ukraine.
