The European Commission has underlined as a previous condition to lift the sanctions imposed against Russia that the country removes the troops it maintains in the Ukrainian territory. The ultimatum occurs after the Kremlin request that, to stop offensives in the Black Sea, it is first necessary that the Russian agricultural bank, known as Rosselkhozbank, and other companies, They connect to Swift again.
The country’s request led by Vladimir Putin occurred just a few hours after the conversations between Russia and the United States held in Saudi Arabia, which aimed to reach a high -day fire agreement.
“The end of unjustified and unjustified aggression of Russia in Ukraine and the unconditional withdrawal of all Russian military forces of the entire territory of Ukraine will be one of the main previous conditions to modify or lift the sanctions,” said a spokesman for the European Commission on Thursday.
“Russia must demonstrate a genuine political will to end its war of illegal and not provoked aggression“, recognized the spokesman, who considers that it is necessary to press Russia to be willing to negotiate.” Any peace agreement or any debate on this must lead to a fair and lasting peace in Ukraine, “he added.
During an interview with Fox News, The Secretary of the United States Treasury, Scott Besent, said that “everything is on the table,” although he acknowledged that Moscow’s requests are “premature “. “It will be determined by the next Russian leadership movements if the sanctions rise or fall and President Trump, I think, will not last to increase the sanctions if that gives him an advantage in the negotiation,” Besent added.
In this way, the Russian demand will be examined by the United States, as long as he shows that he intends to reach a peace agreement. “There will be a long discussion about many things in terms of the proper way of bringing Russia back to the international system, but I think this is premature, discuss the terms of an agreement before we have an agreement,” Besent stressed.
The sanctions regime built by the European Alliance is composed of 16 packagesso ending this system is not a simple or fast task for Brussels. “We often listen to Russia’s version that our sanctions and our other measures are not having any impact on their economy. It is strange then that they are trying to make us go back to them,” said another of the commission spokesmen Thursday.
It should be noted that after the last European summit held, whose main objective was to find short -term solutions for the war in Ukraine and show its support for the country invaded by Putin, “we unanimously agreed that now it is not the time to raise the sanctions in any way. There can be no removal of sanctions before peace has been established,” Macron said Thursday.
However, one of the obstacles to which the European Union could face is that sanctions must be renewed every six months unanimously, which means that With just a state that opposes this complicated process could be knockedas is the case of Hungary that has already threatened to withdraw his support in this regard on more than one occasion.
