Premiere article says Russia is making good progress with sanctions, so new ones are needed – Politics – Saint Petersburg News
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said that Russia is making good progress with the sanctions, so Warsaw intends to make new decisions.
“So far we see that Russia, unfortunately, is not bad expanded with sanctions,” Morawiecki said at a press conference held on April 27 (quote according to RIA Novosti).
According to the policy, Poland is trying to start the process of designing the next package of restrictions.
The prime minister also pays EU countries for Russian gas in rubles and taxes the purchase of gas and oil from Russia so that the Russian Federation cannot easily gain new markets. “And secondly, to impose so-called secondary sanctions, so that the state budget would be reduced as much as possible with countless sanctions,” he added.
After the start of a special military operation in Ukraine, the Western power against Russia. So, in early March, the EU decided seven state-owned banks from the SWIFT system. These include VTB, Rossiya and Otkritie banks, Novikombank, Promsvyazbank, Sovcombank, and the state corporation VEB.RF.
On April 26, it became known that Russia had suspended gas supplies to Poland under the Yamal contract. At the same time, the country’s media wrote that the Polish energy company PGNiG announced its refusal to pay for the offer of Russian gas in rubles.