[LIVE] War in Ukraine: Westerners are preparing new sanctions against Russia
Anti-tank obstacles in the center of Odessa, April 5, 2022. AFP - OLEKSANDR GIMANOV
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The main points:
► Several bombings hit
Kramatorsk
overnight from Monday to Tuesday , a large city controlled by Kiev in eastern Ukraine under the threat of an offensive by Russian troops.
► After
the discovery of many bodies of civilians in the town of Boutcha
, near Kiev, following the withdrawal of troops from Moscow, the shock wave continues to spread in the international community, several countries
evoking "genocide"
and calling for an international investigation.
Nearly 200 Russian diplomats have been expelled from Europe in the past 48 hours.
And the Western powers are preparing to impose new sanctions on Russia.
► Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke this Tuesday at 2:30 p.m. GMT
before the UN Security Council
.
He demanded before the UN that Russia be
"held accountable
" for "
the worst war crimes
" since the Second World War, according to him.
Russia "categorically" denies
any involvement in these abuses and has requested a debate in the UN Security Council to rule on the "hateful provocations" committed, according to it, by Ukraine in Boutcha.
►
Russian forces are preparing a "
massive attack
"
against Ukrainian troops in the Lugansk region in eastern Ukraine, its governor, Serguiï Gaïdaï, announced on Monday.
Times are given in Universal Time (UT)
00h: the United States and the European Union prepare a battery of new sanctions
The United States will adopt on Wednesday, in coordination with the European Union and the G7, new sanctions aimed in particular at prohibiting "any new investment" in Russia, according to a source familiar with the matter.
Britain has frozen $350 billion in Russian regime foreign currency, President Vladimir Putin's "war chest", British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said on Tuesday in Warsaw.
The European Union has for its part promised new sanctions “this week” against Russia, mainly targeting the energy sector.
The supply of Russian hydrocarbons to EU countries represents an enormous financial windfall for Russia and the idea would be to deprive it of it.
But member states are divided on the issue.
If countries like Poland and the Baltic countries are pushing for severe measures, others are much more cautious.
We are therefore talking about an embargo on imports of Russian coal and only coal a priori at first.
According to the European Commission, this represents 4 billion euros per year.
An agreement on an oil embargo, on the other hand, seems a long way off and it will probably not even be a question of gas.
Several countries are totally opposed to it, such as Germany or Austria, which are very dependent on Russian gas and which believe that the cost would be too high for their economy, their industry and their population to bear.
In addition, the banking sector should also be affected by the sanctions with a total ban on transactions against four large Russian banks being studied.
Finally, to isolate Russia a little more, the Commission proposes to hit the transport sector.
Ban on Russian ships entering European Union ports.
Same banishment for Russian or Belarusian road hauliers who may no longer have the right to drive in Europe.
On Twitter, the head of Ukrainian diplomacy, Dmytro Kouleba, called on the European Union to impose "
the mother of all sanctions
" on Moscow in order to "
prevent
'new Buchas'".
“
Stop buying oil, gas and coal from Russia.
Stop funding Vladimir Putin's war machine
,” he added.
To warn 'new Buchas', impose the mother of all sanctions: stop buying oil, gas, and coal from Russia.
Stop financing Putin's war machine.
Russian economy — and its war — would stop in the matter of months.
A few months of tightening your belts are worth thousands of saved lives.
— Dmytro Kuleba (@DmytroKuleba) April 5, 2022
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