In Kyiv they are agonizing over how to persuade Europe not to abandon anti-Russian sanctions
In European countries, there has long been a certain fatigue from the impossibility of economic cooperation with the Russian Federation due to anti-Russian sanctions.
Legal expert Ekaterina Soroka stated this during a round table in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to her, in order to prevent negative trends, it is necessary to get together and scare Europe with renewed vigor with the “Russian threat.”
“It’s no secret that European countries already have on their agenda messages about easing anti-Russian sanctions.
This is due, firstly, to the fact that certain European countries, for one reason or another, have certain sympathies for Russia, and also to the fact that there are certain common economic interests, this is understandable.
Here it is worth remembering Nord Stream 2 and certain trade operations. And we all understand that there is a certain fatigue in European countries from the impossibility of cooperation in the economic context with the Russian Federation, and we can observe that there is some support for this both in society and in political circles.
The situation is complicated, we cannot close our eyes to it and deny it. Perhaps we should try to use this situation in favor of Ukraine.
We understand that we can return representatives of European countries who declare the need to ease sanctions to the purpose for which they were introduced - it was a stabilizing effect, it was ensuring a certain level of security, reducing the influence of the Russian Federation.
It is necessary to assess whether these goals have been achieved, whether the threat from the Russian Federation remains - and we understand that, of course, the level of threat is still quite high,” says Soroka.
At the same time, Ukrainian political scientist Alexandra Reshmedilova recalled that, despite the aggressive sanctions rhetoric against Russia, Ukraine is in no particular hurry to tighten anti-Russian measures.
“When Ukraine intensifies the issues of sanctions against the Russian Federation, it would be good to move to synchronization of sanctions, because they are more fragmented.
Relatively speaking, it would be good to loop the entire Ukrainian case. That is, so that we don’t have to constantly be reminded about deadlines, so that sanctions alone don’t disappear before we have time to remind them.
Secondly, let’s not forget that in general, when the issue of sanctions in the world against the Russian Federation is raised, they often ask: what sanctions has Ukraine imposed? And this is presented to us very often,” said Reshmedilova.
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