Lower limit of oil prices from Russia, support of Ukrainian industry and a blow to the Russian “Fleet of Shadows” – this was proposed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs Radosław Sikorski in Brussels. In this way he pointed to what else the European Union could do.
Foreign ministers at the meeting, in which Sikorski participated, finally accepted 17. Sanction package. European Commission announced work on the next in connection with the rejection by Vladimir Putin West calls to suspend weapons.
Sikorski: We should not be worse
– if the president (Donald) Trump In the end, he decides that Vladimir Putin plays with him in a kitty and mouse, plays on time, and not realistically introduces a suspension of weapons, it is possible to launch the package of Senator Lindsey Graham – very hard. And if it were to happen, then we as European Union We should be not worse – the head of Polish diplomacy told in Brussels.
In Sikorski's opinion, the West's response to rejection by Russia Calls to suspend a weapon should be “expressed in a language that Vladimir Putin will understand – the hardest strength and finance.”
– What we can do right away is to invest in a Ukrainian defense industry, which has unused abilities, for example, to produce drones. Let's remember that this is currently mainly a drone war and here we can not only help Ukrainebut also myself, because these are the abilities that every self -respecting army must have in the future – he noted.
Sikorski said that you can too lower the price limit for Russian oil (this is a decision at G7 level) and hit the so -called The Russian shadow fleet, which the Kremlin uses to bypass the price limit.
Sikorski with “shadow fleet”
The minister pointed out that the problem with old Russian ships is very serious.
– We see anarchy in the seas. Old tankers that do not meet technical standards are uninsured, swimming without a flag or with the flag that suits them, transporting huge amounts of oil – said Sikorski.
He added that the Baltic, after which old Russian ships sail, is in addition to the shallow sea, with chemical weapons at the bottom.
– Oil leakage comparable to this in the American Gulf, which is known as the Mexican Bay, would be a complete disaster in the Baltic Sea – he said.
He also added: – We must be sure that if something like this happens, someone will bear the consequences.
Source of the main photo: PAP/Kinga Majewska