EU offers introducing sanctions against 4 more Russian banks

Ireland, Poland and the Baltic states propose to strengthen anti-Russian sanctions by banning the import of diamonds and cigarettes from Russia, as well as disconnecting a number of organizations, including Gazprombank, from SWIFT and vetoing cooperation with Moscow in nuclear energy, Report informs referring to the Europa Press news agency.

Ireland, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia and Poland proposed to expand the list of organizations excluded from the SWIFT international payment system to include Gazprombank, Alfa-Bank, Rosbank and Tinkoff Bank.

Also, these five countries propose to ban the provision of services by Russian insurers and veto the import of products such as propane or butane, that is, products derived from liquefied petroleum gas, into the EU.