{"id":176955,"date":"2025-06-11T23:48:23","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T23:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/176955\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T23:48:23","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T23:48:23","slug":"zelenskyy-on-eus-18th-sanctions-package-it-can-be-stronger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/176955\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelenskyy on EU&#8217;s 18th sanctions package: It can be stronger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has urged the European Union to adopt tougher sanctions against Russia, commenting on the proposed 18th sanctions package.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> Zelenskyy at the Ukraine\u2013Southeast Europe Summit in Odesa on Wednesday, as reported by European Pravda<\/p>\n<p><strong>Details:<\/strong> Zelenskyy said the 18th sanctions package against Russia &#8220;can be stronger, especially in terms of measures targeting Russian oil tankers and its financial sector&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement:<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Quote: <\/strong>&#8220;A cap of 45 dollars per barrel is better than 60, that is clear, that is true. But real peace will come with a cap of 30 dollars. That is the level that will truly change minds in Moscow.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Background:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>&#13;<\/p>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">The draft of the EU\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pravda.com.ua\/eng\/news\/2025\/06\/10\/7516510\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">18th package<\/a> of sanctions against Russia includes a proposal to reduce the price cap on Russian oil from 60 to 45 dollars per barrel.<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Ukraine called on the European Union <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pravda.com.ua\/eng\/news\/2025\/05\/20\/7513198\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to lower<\/a> the price cap on Russian oil to 30 dollars per barrel.<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">The European Union acknowledged that even if the United States does not agree to a further reduction of the oil price cap, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pravda.com.ua\/eng\/news\/2025\/06\/11\/7516688\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EU can still implement<\/a> such a measure on its own.<\/li>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Support Ukrainska Pravda on <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/pravdaua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Patreon<\/strong><\/a><strong>!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has urged the European Union to adopt tougher sanctions against Russia, commenting on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[2000,299,5187,1699,332,2663,14432],"class_list":{"0":"post-176955","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-european","11":"tag-european-union","12":"tag-russia","13":"tag-sanctions","14":"tag-zelenskyy"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114667408806328408","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}