Ukraine Gate – Kyiv – July 4, 2022- Foreign Minister Dmytro Koleba stated that private Greek companies that supply tankers to Russia for transporting oil, are in fact withdrawing them from the oil embargo.
“In the seventh package of EU sanctions, we want to see Russia cut off from global maritime trade, and that means, first of all, the inability of ship operators to put their tankers at the disposal of the Russian Federation,” Kuleba said. “The biggest operators and the largest supplier of tankers for transporting Russian oil by sea are private Greek companies, not state ones. I don’t blame the Greek government, but the Greek private companies are the biggest suppliers that are essentially pulling Russia out of the oil embargo. This is a fact.”
He added that in the seventh package of sanctions, Ukraine also expects to completely separate Russian banks from the SWIFT system, which is a ban on dealings with Russian gold.
And the minister added, “and personal punishments until they are harmed. They and their loved ones and their mistresses until everyone is harmed.”
As at the end of May, the European Union introduced the sixth package of sanctions against the Russian Federation, the main element of which was the refusal to transport Russian oil by sea.
As noted by the EU’s governing bodies, this move will allow the EU to give up 90% of Russian oil by the end of 2022.
