After mentioning the possibility of freezing the assets of Russian President Vladimir Putin in the European Union at the extraordinary European summit yesterday in Brussels, the 27 took action.
This Friday, February 25, 2022, European countries have, in fact, decided to add other sanctions to those which will be implemented by the Ministers of Foreign Affairs.
It will be a question of sanctioning Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Lavrov by freezing of their assets within the EU, reports AFP.
“The European Council has acted yesterday (Thursday evening) a series of unpublished sanctions affecting Russia and Belarus. The sanctions will also concern Russian personalities, including the highest leaders of the Russian Federation, “said French president Emmanuel Macron.
On the sanctions train approved by the twenty-seven Thursday evening, Europeans also decided to remove the faculty of traveling without a visa in the EU for Russian service carriers of service.