Eu/russia

THE Czech Republic, which holds the rotating EU presidency, said on Friday that a blanket ban on visas for all Russian travellers could be the bloc’s next sanction on Moscow.

“The halting of Russian visas by all EU member states could be another very effective sanction,” Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky said in a statement.

He said he would propose the idea at an informal meeting of EU foreign ministers in Prague at the end of the month. This after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called on the West to ban all Russian travellers in an interview with the Washington Post this week

The EU has so far come up with six sanction packages against Russia. |