EU to work on 19 package of sanctions against Russia — Kallas

The European Union will work on a new, 19th package of sanctions against Russia, chief of the European diplomacy Kaja Kallas told reporters after a videoconference of the EU foreign ministers urgently convened ahead of the upcoming Russia-US summit, Report informs via Reuters.

In her opinion, the EU should not discuss concessions until Russia agrees to a full and unconditional truce.

Kallas believes that the sequence of actions should include first a truce without preconditions with a strict monitoring system and ironclad guarantees, and negotiations later.

Until that happened, she promised to work on the 19th package of sanctions.