Since Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the Defense Ministry to send the country’s armed forces to the breakaway regions in eastern Ukraine, the international community has moved to reprimand Russia through the application of economic sanctions.
At least the United States and the United Kingdom have already announced that they will introduce such measures against the Russians. In the early hours of Tuesday (22), Japan also said that it “is ready” to join the US and other G7 nations in the application of sanctions.
The European Union is due to decide on the use of sanctions at a meeting of European foreign ministers on Tuesday afternoon (22), but the French Chancellor and an EU representative have already said that the bloc will “obviously” apply them. .
U.S
The United States is coordinating with allies new sanctions against Russia.
The new sanctions will be announced on Tuesday (22), according to information from US government officials. On Monday night (21), the information was confirmed by the US ambassador to the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield.
“Tomorrow, the United States will impose sanctions against Russia for this clear violation of international law and the sovereignty and integrity of Ukraine’s territories,” she told reporters after the emergency meeting at the UN Security Council.
The details of this new round of sanctions or export controls are still unknown. However, according to a White House spokesman, the measures would be direct against Russia. This information corroborates the speech of European leaders.
United Kingdom
Britain will immediately impose tough economic sanctions on Russia, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Tuesday.
“We will immediately institute a package of sanctions economics,” Johnson told reporters.
“This is, I must emphasize, only the first flurry of sanctions economics of United Kingdom against Russia, because we expect I fear there will be more irrational Russian behavior to come,” he added.
Johnson said he would set the sanctions in session in Parliament, probably around 9:30 am, Brasília time.
The sanctions, Johnson said, would be “aimed not just at entities in Donbass [regiões separatistas]Luhansk and Donetsk, but in Russia itself – targeting Russian economic interests as much as we can”.
Britain has threatened to cut off Russian companies’ access to US dollars and sterling, preventing them from raising capital in London and exposing what Johnson calls a “Russian doll” of company ownership and ownership.
Russia’s once-mighty superpower economy is now smaller than Italy’s based on IMF data, with a nominal GDP of around $1.7 trillion.
Japan
Japan said on Tuesday it was ready to join the United States and other G7 industrialized nations in imposing sanctions on Russia.
That action was “unacceptable and a violation of international law,” Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, who called Putin on Thursday to ask for restraint, told reporters. The Japan was ready for a strong response that could include sanctions he added.
news sanctions of Japanwhich would add to those imposed on Russia in 2014 after the occupation of Crimea, would include a ban on semiconductor chips and other key technology exports and tighter restrictions on Russian banks, the Yomiuri newspaper previously reported.
although the Japan no longer a major semiconductor exporter, with only 10% of the global chip market, is a major manufacturer of specialized electronic components such as automotive chips and image sensors, and dominates in other industrial fields such as high-tech manufacturing equipment .
Kishida and other government officials who spoke on Tuesday did not say which sanctions or Japan was wondering.
The most rigid posture Japan against Russia contrasts with the more lenient diplomatic approach towards Moscow adopted by the administrations japanese in the past. They courted Putin in an attempt to secure the return of islands occupied by Russian forces at the end of World War II.
European Union
The European Union will decide which sanctions to impose on Russia “this afternoon”, EU High Representative Joseph Borrell told reporters on Tuesday.
Borrell said he had called an emergency informal meeting of European Union foreign ministers to discuss the European response to Russian President Vladimir Putin ordering Russian troops in two breakaway regions in eastern Ukraine.
“Obviously, that response will take the form of sanctions,” Borrell said, “we must act quickly, and that means this afternoon.”
“I wouldn’t say this is a complete invasion, but Russian troops are on Ukrainian soil,” he added.
French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian also said on Tuesday that “obviously” the European bloc will impose sanctions.
“It’s a violation of international law, it’s an attack on Ukraine’s sovereignty and integrity, it’s Russia renouncing its international commitments and the Minsk agreements it signed,” Le Drian said.
He added that European leaders had three messages to convey: a firm stance against Russia’s actions, solidarity with Ukraine and unity in Europe.
Source: CNN Brasil
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