{"id":567754,"date":"2025-11-13T14:06:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T14:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/567754\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T14:06:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T14:06:21","slug":"were-running-out-of-things-to-sanction-in-russia-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/567754\/","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019re running out of things to sanction in Russia \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sanctions come into full force on Nov. 21, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/romania-and-bulgaria-scramble-to-protect-russian-refineries-as-trump-sanctions-loom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">several countries<\/a> are already thinking about asking for exemptions. Hungary already <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/11\/07\/trump-opens-the-door-for-an-exemption-for-hungary-on-russian-oil-sanctions-00642146\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">got a one-year extension<\/a> from the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSanctions have to be enforced, so you know we don\u2019t put sanctions and then not enforce them. We\u2019re interested in enforcing them as well,\u201d Rubio added.<\/p>\n<p>The sanctions\u2019 success ultimately depends on the enforcement progress. One of the enforcement mechanisms is sanctioning the Russian shadow fleet \u2014 hundreds of oil tankers illegally transporting sanctioned Russian oil around the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShadow fleet has come up because I do think there are things that the Europeans can do on shadow fleet since a lot of these are happening in areas much closer to them,\u201d Rubio said.<\/p>\n<p>The EU has leveled 19 packages of sanctions against Russia, hitting Russia\u2019s LNG, banks, crypto trading, further clamping down on the shadow fleet that clandestinely moves sanctioned goods, and more, aiming to reduce the Russian war economy.<\/p>\n<p>The Ukrainian government said it knows there\u2019s more to sanction and is ready to work with partners to show them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRegarding Rubio\u2019s statement about exhausting sanctions options \u2026 there are absolutely more objective options out there. More oil majors, banks, and\u00a0 fleet\/infrastructure. And components and defense. And payments. And the Arctic,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/vladyslav.vlasiuk\/posts\/pfbid0yEEyburEzAKU7QMaEYSfDKivXdCQG63ANW42P2mb57ZH9kZpuazumJcdMonesMLil\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a>\u00a0Vladyslav Vlasiuk, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy\u2019s sanctions envoy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe continue to work with American partners, and with the G7, and with others. There will be more sanctions,\u201d Vlasiuk added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sanctions come into full force on Nov. 21, but several countries are already thinking about asking for exemptions.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":567755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[331,2437,473,35,7964,805,2190,660,5443,2820,12,2661,3209,332,7339,2663,657,49,2601,771,108316,335,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-567754","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-banks","9":"tag-companies","10":"tag-defense","11":"tag-energy","12":"tag-enforcement","13":"tag-foreign-policy","14":"tag-hungary","15":"tag-kremlin","16":"tag-lng","17":"tag-marco-rubio","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-oil","20":"tag-payments","21":"tag-russia","22":"tag-russia-sanctions","23":"tag-sanctions","24":"tag-ukraine","25":"tag-united-states","26":"tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","27":"tag-war","28":"tag-war-economy","29":"tag-war-in-ukraine","30":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115542778495125504","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567754","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=567754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}