The countries of the European Union (EU) approved this Wednesday the imposition of new sanctions in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, including adding more oligarchs,

Russian politicians and their relatives to the blacklist and disconnecting three banks. Belarusians

of the international communication system SWIFT.

In addition to the new restrictive measures,

adopted today by the permanent representatives of the Twenty-seven,

"sanctions aimed at the maritime sector" are added, the French presidency of the EU reported on its official Twitter account.

The new measures, whose function is to "complement and align" the three rounds of sanctions already adopted and in force to date, "clarify the issue of cryptocurrencies and complete the list of technologies and goods that cannot be exported," says the French presidency.

These sanctions will be formally adopted by the Council through a written procedure with a view to their rapid publication in the Official Journal of the European Union, at which time they will come into force.

The new package was discussed last Friday by the foreign ministers of the Twenty-seven and, although they did not make any decisions at the time, the EU's high representative for foreign affairs, Josep Borrell, said that he was going to include more Russian oligarchs on the list of sanctioned and that the banks excluded from the SWIFT system were going to be expanded.

Since the invasion began on February 24,

the EU has expelled seven Russian banks from the interbank system

, among which are not Sberbank, the country's largest entity, nor Gazprombank, because they process a large part of the energy operations with the block.

In addition, it froze the assets of the Russian central bank in community territory, sanctioned the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, and the foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, among other high-ranking government officials, as well as the country's military leadership.

It also

imposed an airspace ban on any aircraft operated by Russian airlines

, approved a trade embargo on several sectors of strategic importance to the Russian economy, and suspended the broadcasting activities in the EU of Russian state media Sputnik and Russia Today.

The EU has progressively imposed sanctions against Russia since 2014 in response to its then-illegal annexation of Crimea.

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