Nehammer says EU agrees to 'toughest ever' package of sanctions against Russia
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Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer said a European Union (EU) summit had agreed on the “toughest ever” package of sanctions against Russia. According to him, this decision will also have a painful impact on the European Union, TASS reports.
He clarified that the sanctions will affect the transport, aviation, space industry of the country, as well as shipbuilding.
“It [the package of sanctions] will powerfully affect the Russian economy,” Nehammer said after a meeting of the Austrian Security Council because of the military operation in the Donbass. The chancellor specified that the most powerful sanctions would be imposed on the supply of spare parts for aircraft and the “transfer of technical know-how.”
Earlier it was reported that the leaders of 27 EU countries agreed to impose additional sanctions against Russia. They were supposed to affect the financial and transport sectors, as well as visa policy.
In turn, the deputy head of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, Information Technologies and Communications, a deputy from United Russia, Anton Gorelkin, said that production, banks and retail chains in Russia are ready for new sanctions from Western countries.
On Thursday, February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that he had decided to conduct a special military operation to protect Donbass. After that, Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky announced the severance of diplomatic relations with Moscow.
