Apart from the LNG, a diplomat has added that the sanctions package propose penalties for the aging oil export tanker, which is operated as part of the so -called shadow fleet in Russia. The EU targeted 74 new ships, and the other two EU diplomats said.
Furthermore, according to three diplomats, new products promote Moscow’s aluminum exports. The EU still depends on Russia, about 6 % of the import of aluminum imports.
Finally, this package targets video game equipment like Microsoft’s Xbox. This says that the EU uses Russia to control the drone.
Still, the omission of LNG will disappoint the block Russia Hawks. Last month, 10 EU countries, including Finland, Poland, and Valtics, asked the European Commission to “prohibit the import of Russian gas and LNG as soon as possible.”
“It’s a shame,” Lithuania’s Minister of Energy, Gigimantas Viichunas, told Politico. “We are disappointed to some extent,” he said.
However, Viichuna claimed that the country had hope for the future EU “Roadmap” to end all Russian energy connections.
