The Europeans are preparing to draw yet another round of sanctions against Russia

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Josep Borrell, High Representative for Foreign Affairs of the EU, and the Secretary of the United Nations, General Antonio Guterres, at UN headquarters (New York, September 18, 2022). CRAIG RUTTLE/AFP

DECRYPTION – This is the EU’s eighth response since the start of the war in Ukraine. Additional economic sanctions are under consideration.

From our correspondent in Brussels

Faced with Vladimir Putin’s new headlong rush – mobilization of some 300,000 Russian reservists, threat of recourse to weapons of mass destruction and support for theright to self-determinationof the inhabitants of the Ukrainian provinces of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhya-, the response of the EU will be yet another package of sanctions against Russia. The eighth since the beginning of the war in Ukraine or, if we put aside the series of measures intended to reinforce older sanctions, “the sixth teraccording to the piquant formula of some members of the European media in Brussels. “Don’t expect the moon! We have already cut off practically the entire Russian economy from that of the Unionwarns an EU source straight away.

Sanctions against Russian supporters

From New York, where she participated in the United Nations General Assembly, Ursula von der Leyen has, in any case, sharpened curiosity on the subject. “We are ready to impose…

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