09/19/2025September 19, 2025
EU wants to strike where Russia gets its money, Kallas says
chief Ursula von der Leyen and Kaja Kallas, the EU’s top diplomat, announced that the Commission had presented its 19th package of .
“Russia is showing the full extent of its contempt for diplomacy and international law. So we’re increasing the pressure,” von der Leyen wrote on X.
As part of the bloc’s 19th package of sanctions against Russia, the European Commission intends to bring forward the ban on Russian liquefied natural gas (LNG) imports into the European Union by one year, to the start of 2027.
“Russia’s war economy is sustained by the revenues from fossil fuels. We want to cut these revenues,” she said in a video statement. “We are banning imports of Russian energy into European markets. It is time to turn off the tap.”
Package targets Russian ‘shadow fleet’
Meanwhile, Kallas announced that the package would designate 118 new vessels as a and enablers, and would ban the reinsurance of listed vessels.
In a serises of posts on X, she said that the Commission had also proposed taking action against Russian financial evasion schemes in third countries, including those involving cryptocurrencies, and targeting the Russian credit card system MIR.
The proposal would extend the EU’s export bans to include more chemicals, metal components, salts and ores, and would impose tighter export controls on entities in Russia, China and India, Kallas added.
“We want to strike where Russia gets its money. No sector is off-limits,” she wrote.
The new sanctions proposals must be endorsed by the 27 EU countries before they can enter force.
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