Zelenskyy to Seimas of Lithuania: We can't wait, the EU needs to make powerful decisions in the sixth sanction package and it is obligatory to include oil
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The European Union must include a ban on russian energy imports in the sixth package of sanctions currently under development
This was stated by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a video address to the Seimas of Lithuania, Rubryka reports.
"We can't expect the development of the seventh, eighth, tenth, or twentieth package. We need to make really powerful decisions in the sixth sanctions package. The European Union can do it and must include oil, necessarily sanction russian banks, but all banks, not part of them, there is no need for demonstrations," Zelenskyy said.
The President stressed that even after the massacres in Bucha and other cities, watching the deliberate destruction of peaceful cities by russian missiles and bombs, some EU countries can not decide when they will limit the purchase of russian energy.
Zelenskyy believes that specific deadlines should finally be set for each EU country to effectively abandon or at least significantly limit the consumption of Russian gas and oil.
"Only in this way will the russian leadership come to the conclusion that the war is a catastrophe, first of all, for them," the president stressed.
Zelenskyy also said that hundreds of European companies and banks not only haven't refused to operate in russian markets but also openly shown contempt in response to demands to stop financing russia's military machine.
"If only the sixth package starts discussing oil, then the world does not realize what war russia is preparing for. If there is still no clear position on russian gas, then there can be no certainty that Europe has a common will to force russia to peace," he added.
To recap, the Lithuanian Ministry of Energy announced that the Lithuanian gas transportation system has not imported gas from russia since the beginning of April. Now all of Lithuania's gas needs are met through imports through the LNG terminal in Klaipeda.
To recap, the Prime Minister of Lithuania Ingrida Šimonite stated that Lithuania cannot unilaterally stop the transit to the Kaliningrad region from the main territory of Russia, but consultations are underway.
