He said this after the meeting of the EU Foreign Ministers in Brussels.

“EU sanctions will not stop the war in Ukraine in a short time, but they should create a lot of economic problems for Russia,” TASS quoted him as saying.

Borrell several times called disinformation the thesis that EU sanctions do not work.

On the eve of Josep Borrell, in his blog, he called on the population of Europe to show strategic patience so that sanctions against Russia prove their effectiveness.