The German Chancellor Friedrich Merz reaffirmed on Tuesday, May 13 that Russia would be attacked by a new train of sanctions, in the absence of “real progress this week” in the search for a high fire in Urkaine.
If Moscow “does not approve” the proposal of kyiv’s allies of a high 30 -day fire, the additional sanctions prepared by the European Union will be “approved” and the energy sectors and the financial market will be worried in particular, “he said during a press conference in Berlin.
A 17th package of sanctions, which essentially plans to increase the number of ships considered as “ghost vessels” used by Russia to avoid western sanctions against their oil exports, is already in preparation in Brussels.
“This war must stop”
It must “decide at the end of June,” said the new German leader, who received Greek prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. But “in the event that there is no real progress this week, we would like, together at European level, participate in favor of a significant hardening of sanctions,” he said.
“This war must stop,” Friedrich Merz urged, for whom “more commitments and more concessions” against Moscow “are no longer acceptable.”
Visiting kyiv on Saturday, the French, British, German and Poles leaders threatened Russia with “strong sanctions” in case of rejection of a high total and unconditional fire of 30 days from Monday.
The unknown Russian delegation
kyiv estimated on Tuesday that the absence of Vladimir Putin to the Ucranocruse negotiations scheduled for Thursday in Istanbul, where Volodymyr Zelensky should go, would be the “final signal” that Moscow does not want to stop the war.
“Now, it really depends on Putin to respond to this negotiation offer and accept a high fire,” said Friedrich Merz, for whom “the ball is exclusively in the Russian camp.”
For two days, Kremlin has maintained vagueness in the composition of the Russian delegation, and a possible presence of the Russian president, during these conversations that would constitute the first direct discussions between kyiv and Moscow from the spring of 2022, at the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Source: BFM TV
