“We are working on the sixth sanctions package, which aims to exclude more banks from the SWIFT system, list disinformation actors and tackle oil imports,” said Josep Borrell, the chief. of European diplomacy, on Twitter.
According to the Archyde.com agency, the new sanctions would concern in particular Sberbank, the main Russian bank, which would join the list of Russian banks already excluded from the SWIFT payment system.
The measures proposed by the Commission would be presented on Wednesday by its president, Ursula von der Leyen. These sanctions, which will be subject to the approval of the 27 EU member states, should include a ban on imports of Russian oil by the end of the year.
Russian President Vladimir Putin warned the West on Tuesday that he might halt Russian oil and natural gas exports himself in response to sanctions imposed by the EU and the United States.
