Di Maio: EU Must OK 6th Sanctions Package ASAP

The EU must OK the sixth sanctions package against Russia including blocking oil imports from Russia as soon as possible, Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio said Wednesday. “I think that the European Union must approve the sixth package of sanctions to block imports of oil from Russia as soon as possible,” Di Maio stated on the margins of an event organized by farm group Coldiretti in Rome.

“This because if on the one hand there is Russia using arms to attack Ukraine, on the other the only instrument we have to defend the Ukrainian people and bring Putin to the table are certainly sanctions. On this, in my view, the EU must accelerate, also because when you hit oil revenues Russia will have less money to finance this war.”