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The European Union is sending a delegation to Washington to prepare new joint sanctions against Russia.
European Council President Antonio Costa said a European team is traveling to Washington, DC, to work with American friends, but did not reveal who would be part of the delegation.
"We are working with the United States and other like-minded partners to increase our pressure through further direct and secondary sanctions ," Costa said at a news conference in the western Ukrainian city of Uzhhorod, after a meeting with President Volodymyr Zelensky.
A Commission spokesperson told POLITICO that the delegation would be led by David O'Sullivan, the EU's sanctions envoy. Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced that the EU's 19th package of sanctions against Russia, designed "to bring President Putin to the negotiating table," will be unveiled in early September.
Ukraine and its allies have long called for the US to follow suit and impose more punitive sanctions on Moscow, in an effort to empty Russian President Vladimir Putin's "war coffers."
Last month, US President Donald Trump set the Kremlin a two-week deadline to end its invasion of Ukraine or face “massive sanctions or massive tariffs, or both,” but he has yet to implement the decision.
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