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As European Union leaders gathered for a summit in Brussels, Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen made the announcement a day after the United States announced its decision to sanction Rosneft and Lukoil, Russia's two largest oil producers.
The European Union has approved a new package of sanctions targeting Russian energy infrastructure, joining a US initiative aimed at reducing Moscow's ability to wage war against Ukraine.
"Today is a good day for Europe and Ukraine," Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said in a statement first reported by The Associated Press (AP) and Bloomberg, as European Union (EU) leaders gathered for a summit in Brussels. He said the new sanctions "will introduce comprehensive new measures on oil and gas, the ghost fleet and the Russian financial sector."
"The sanctions are having a real impact and are hurting the Russian economy," Rasmussen added.
The bloc's 19th package had been stalled for weeks, with Austria, Hungary and Slovakia raising obstacles. The measures came a day after the United States announced sanctions against state-owned giants Rosneft and Lukoil, Russia's two largest oil producers.
The agenda of the EU leaders' summit in Brussels is packed.
In addition to the war in Ukraine and sanctions against Russia, they will talk about defense spending, rising housing costs, migration, developments in the Middle East, green and digital transitions, and social media regulation.
Earlier, the Belgian Prime Minister submitted 3 requests for frozen Russian assets.
On the way to today's meeting, Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever presented his conditions for confiscating Russian real estate assets to finance a large loan to Ukraine.
If the conditions are met, "then we can move forward, if not, I will do everything in my power to stop this decision," said De Wever, who is cautious as the assets are held in a financial depository based in Brussels.
He wants 1) “full mutualisation of risk because there is a huge risk we will suffer huge claims” and 2) “a guarantee that if the money has to be repaid, every member state will contribute”.
"And the third demand is that every country that has frozen [Russian] assets move with us," De Wever said, adding that there are also "large amounts of Russian money in other countries, which have been silent about this."
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