Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday that the rejection of the European Union to alleviate sanctions against Russia shows that the Euroblock does not want peace in Ukraine. According to the AFP report, TASR reports this.
The United States, Russia and Ukraine agreed at the separate negotiations on Sunday and Monday in R Shortly thereafter, the Kremlin stressed that the condition of entry into force is to cancel the sanctions against Russian banks involved in the international grocery and fertilizer trade. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj refused.
“An integral part of the Black Sea Agreement is the abolition of sanctions against the Russian bank,” Peskov said. AFP writes that it is specifically a Russian agricultural bank. “If European states do not want to go this way, it means that they do not want to go the way of peace in accordance with the efforts of Moscow and Washington,” Kremlin spokesman added.
Russia withdrew from the agreement
Russia and Ukraine agreed on the grain agreement, also known as the Black Sea initiative in July 2022 for the mediation of Turkey and the UN. The agreement assumed the creation of a safe corridor for the export of Ukrainian grain through the Black Sea, as well as the abolition of restrictions on the export of Russian fertilizers. In July 2023, Russia resigned from the agreement for alleged non -compliance with the conditions of the agreement.
Russian agency TASS on Friday, referring to the EUOBSERVER portal, reported that the EU is allegedly preparing a 17 -sanction package against Russia.
Leaders of European countries on Thursday in Paris at the summit of the so -called. The coalitions willing to refuse to abolish or alleviate sanctions against Moscow, which imposed on her for her military invasion of Ukraine.
Sanctions need to be strengthened
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said that leaders agreed that there was no time to alleviate sanctions, on the contrary, they should be strengthened. According to the German office of Olaf Scholz, it would be a mistake to alleviate sanctions and such a step would not make sense without a ceasefire.
On Friday, Peskov also commented on the call of Russian President Vladimir Putin to dismiss the Greeny and the “temporary administration” of the United Nations in Kiev. According to the Kremlin spokesman over the Ukrainian army “completely lacking control”. He accused the army of everyday attempts to attack energy equipment.
Peskov claims that at this point Russia keeps the commitment not to attack Ukrainian energy facilities. However, Kiev said that Russia continues to attack energy buildings.
“The Russian side reserves the right if the Kiev regime does not follow the moratorium, also not to keep it,” Peskov said.
