EU’s 19th Russia Sanctions Package Targets Energy, Finance, Defense Industrial Base

The European Union recently announced the latest package of proposed sanctions against Russia, after spent a week in an attempt to meet almost impossible demands by US president Donald Trump to Europe to accumulate more pressure on the Kremlin.

The measures reported in the nineteenth penalties for the European Union, while they are still gradual, are subject to approval by all European Union member states, will represent a great stress for Europe’s efforts to reduce the financial and material basis of the war machine in Moscow.

The European Union recently announced The latest package One of the proposed sanctions on Russia, a week after it is spent in an attempt to meet almost impossible demands by US President Donald Trump to Europe to accumulate more pressure on the Kremlin.

The measures reported in the nineteenth penalties for the European Union, while they are still gradual, are subject to approval by all European Union member states, will represent a great stress for Europe’s efforts to reduce the financial and material basis of the war machine in Moscow.

The slow economic attack of the European Union, which coincides with Ukraine Air attack Against the material foundations for the Russian oil industry, it stands in a sharp contradiction with the failure of the United States. Since Trump took office, the United States has not taken any additional steps to increase the pressure on sanctions on Russia, although it tried to destroy India, a large buyer of Russian oil, Through definitions.

On Thursday, at a press conference with UK Prime Minister Kiir Starmer, Trump He said Russian President Vladimir Putin “really let me down”, but Trump reiterated that he would not take additional action until Europe moves first and is far from pressure on Russia and its main agents.

The growing branching between Europe and the United States with regard to pressure on Russia’s issues, because the American treasury only and the global role of the US dollar and the American financial system can put real teeth in any measures of sanctions, whether they are aimed at cutting Russian energy profits or those that aim to punish partners in third countries and agents.

But the last package of the European Union follows three broad baskets designed to increase pressure Russian economy This is already bile: energy, financing and defensive industrial base.

“We know that our sanctions are an effective tool for economic pressure. We will continue to use it until Russia comes to the negotiating table with Ukraine for a fair and lasting peace,” He said European Commission President Ursula von der Lin in a statement.

Given the importance of energy revenues for the war effort of Russia – Moscow It still makes more More than 500 million euros per day of fossil fuel sales – the package focuses on the energy sector. In SOP partially to Trump, the European Union will rush a little imports of imports of Russian LNG (Europe is the largest buyer in the country) until the beginning of 2027 instead of the end of that year. One of the reasons why it takes a long time to gradually get rid of that gas is that gas contracts are long -term; Another more political reason is that senior buyers include France, Belgium and the Netherlands, as much of this gas ends in Germany. These countries have more political weight in Brussels than smaller countries.

The last package also adds 118 other tankers to the list designated for the so -called shadow points, and unregistered ships carrying Russian oil illegally in a violation of the Western borders to sell them. This is a necessary step, but it is not sufficient without the cooperation of the United States. It is necessary because during the summer, Russia’s use of the shadow fleet was to move the oil creep Reserve. Not enough because the European Union and the United Kingdom sanctions simply do not have access or the bite of US sanctions.

Finally, Von Der Leyen said that the European Union will pursue the buyers of Russian energy products, but have not provided any details.

“We are now following those who feed the Russia’s war by buying oil in violation of sanctions. We target refineries, oil merchants, and petrochemical companies in the third countries, including China,” said von der Layen.

There were no indications that the European Union was ready to apply a kind of secondary definition that Trump imposed on India to bend it (In vain) Off Russian oil.

The package is also a ban on Russian banks and other financial institutions, including measures to target the encrypted currency used to avoid sanctions. The suppliers of defense materials will also be completed in the third countries who complete the expanded and defense defense base in Russia. Von der Layen also said that the European Union is working on a new way to benefit from, if not direct, approximately 300 billion dollars in the assets of the frozen central bank in the first days of the war.

The European Union was supposed to aim to present the sanctions package last week, but Trump demanded that the European Union and NATO members be cut off immediately their purchases of Russian energy. He said, not incorrectly, that European energy purchases, even if they were much smaller than before the war began, continue to finance the war machine in the Kremlin.

But it was difficult to meet the request By pipelineAnd also friendly relations with Kremlin, NATO member Türkiye He buys A lot of cheap Russian oil and mystificationMost analysts saw the demand as a stone procedure from Trump to postpone any additional US sanctions pressure. The US Senate has a very difficult bill that is punishable by Russia at hand, but this is it Hold Undially, at the request of the White House.

However, as with the previous 18 European Union sanctions packages, the committee’s proposal must now obtain unanimous approval to all 27 European Union member states, including Hungary and Slovakia, which held almost all previous penalties. This time, as before, the European Union seems ready to reach the check book: Brussels is It is said that he is ready To free more than 500 million euros for Hungary for rapid approval of the latest measures.