BRUSSELS, May 31 — EU leaders today played down the prospects of getting a ban on Russian gas in a next round of sanctions, after struggling to secure a watered-down embargo on Moscow’s key oil exports.
“I think that the gas has to be in the seventh package but I’m a realist as well, I don’t think it will be there,” Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas said on the second day of the summit in Brussels.“With gas it is quite different. Therefore the gas embargo will not be an issue in the next package of sanctions either,” he argued.
As the European Union stalls on a gas ban, Russia’s state giant Gazprom has already begun cutting off European countries that have refused to pay for their gas in roubles. But the refusal to cut off the vast sums heading daily to fill the Kremlin’s coffers has fuelled criticism that the bloc is helping to fund Moscow’s war machine.
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