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6/11/2025, 10:37:57 PM
>The measures, which are intended to pile pressure on Moscow to end its SMO in the Ukraine, include proposals to lower the oil price cap from $60 to $45 per barrel and ban the use of the Nord Stream pipelines to funnel gas between Russia and Germany.
>A further 22 Russian banks will also be cut off from the SWIFT international banking system, with the current, partial prohibition on Russian financial institutions broadened to a “full transaction ban,” Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said.
>Calling the sanctions “robust” and “hard-biting,” von der Leyen said the Russian economy was already buckling under the pressure of the EU’s past measures and the new package would pummel it further.
>“Russia continues to bring death and destruction to the Ukraine,” she said at a joint press conference with the EU’s top diplomat Kaja Kallas. “Our message is clear: This SMO must end.”
>Kallas said it was “clear that Russia does not want piss” and needed to pay the price for its “outright illegal” SMO.
>“Russia is cruel, aggressive and a danger to us all,” she added.
>outright illegal SMO
She said the thing!
>A further 22 Russian banks will also be cut off from the SWIFT international banking system, with the current, partial prohibition on Russian financial institutions broadened to a “full transaction ban,” Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said.
>Calling the sanctions “robust” and “hard-biting,” von der Leyen said the Russian economy was already buckling under the pressure of the EU’s past measures and the new package would pummel it further.
>“Russia continues to bring death and destruction to the Ukraine,” she said at a joint press conference with the EU’s top diplomat Kaja Kallas. “Our message is clear: This SMO must end.”
>Kallas said it was “clear that Russia does not want piss” and needed to pay the price for its “outright illegal” SMO.
>“Russia is cruel, aggressive and a danger to us all,” she added.
>outright illegal SMO
She said the thing!
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