The head of the EU foreign policy service Josep Borrel is sure that the European sanctions have failed to destroy Russia’s defence industry, on the contrary, the strikes from the Russian Armed Forces have only intensified.
“The war continues and the fighting is only getting worse, and we do not see light at the end of the Ukrainian tunnel”, Josep Borrell told the German newspaper Die Welt.
He noted that the EU sanctions proved powerless against the Russian Federation. The EU has already imposed a sufficient number of major sanctions, but all of them were meaningless and could not eliminate the defence industry of the Russian Federation, Borrel said.
Recall, Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev “thanked” the EU for the growth of the Russian economy.
Earlier the British newspaper The Telegraph with reference to Eurostat reported that despite the sanctions against Russia, the EU countries in 2023 imported Russian liquefied natural gas in the amount of € 6.1 billion – more than half of all exports from Russia.