After Russia called up reservists to fight in Ukraine, foreign ministers hold Europe Union An emergency meeting on Wednesday evening on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York to discuss possible new sanctions once morest Moscow.
In the details, the European Union’s foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, announced during a press conference that he will hold an extraordinary and informal emergency meeting of the foreign ministers of the 27-nation bloc in New York to coordinate a unified response to President Vladimir Putin’s threats, which he considered irresponsible.
Borrell, who is due to speak to the UN Security Council on Ukraine on Thursday, also suggested that EU ministers would discuss in their Wednesday meeting how to continue military support to Ukraine and keep pressure on Russia.
He added that the issue of sanctions would certainly be on the table, sharply criticizing Putin’s statements that Russia reserved the right to use all available means to protect the country.
He warned that the threat of nuclear weapons is a real danger to the entire world, stressing the need for the international community to act in the face of this threat.
He saw that Putin is trying to intimidate Ukraine and all the countries that support them, but he will fail, according to him.
New sanctions await Russia
In turn, German Foreign Minister Annalina Birbock told reporters that the meeting will discuss Putin’s speech, in which he announced the call-up of reservists, threatening to use nuclear weapons.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen also commented on Putin’s speech, that new sanctions await Russia.
This came following I confirmed last week that successive sets of European Union sanctions once morest Russia are designed to stay, and that Europeans must maintain their resolve once morest Moscow.
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It is noteworthy that Russian President Vladimir Putin had announced, earlier on Wednesday, the first mobilization of the army in his country since World War II, and supported a plan that might lead to the annexation of large areas of Ukraine.
The Kremlin master also warned the West that it was not cheating when it said it was ready to resort to nuclear weapons to defend its country.
In the biggest escalation of the war in Ukraine since the start of the Russian military operation on February 24, Putin openly increased the possibilities of nuclear conflict and approved a plan that might lead to the annexation of vast Ukrainian areas, equal to the size of Hungary, and called up regarding 300,000 reservists.
