EU to impose new sanctions over Russia’s abduction of Ukrainian children

According to an Ukrinform correspondent, this was stated by EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Kaja Kallas before the start of the EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting in Brussels.

“Today we also expect to move forward with the sanctions targeting those people who help to work with the Ukrainian children that they have deported from Ukraine,” Kallas said.

She also recalled that later in the day Brussels would host a high-level event regarding the Ukrainian children, “how to really bring them back and what else the international community can do, because this is awful what is done to these children.”

Commenting on recent ceasefire statements, Kallas said: “We saw that this ceasefire that Putin wanted was only very cynical, to protect his parade, whereas they were actually attacking civilians in Ukraine.”

At the same time, she stressed that Ukraine had kept to the ceasefire “unconditionally,” as it had done on previous occasions, while Russia had traditionally violated it.

As previously reported by Ukrinform, Kallas said she was not surprised by Vladimir Putin’s desire to see former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder act as the EU’s negotiator, since in that case he would be sitting “on both sides of the table.”

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