EU ambassadors have approved the exclusion of several Russian banks from the Swift system, as announced this evening by the French presidency, as part of the sanctions for the war that Russia has triggered with the invasion of Ukraine. As far as we know, there are seven banks on the list. The measure will be legally approved with written procedure tonight, so that it can be in the gazette and be operational from tomorrow morning. According to diplomatic sources cited by the dpa, the list will not include the main Russian bank, Sberbank.
According to documents cited by the Politico.eu website, the list does not even include Gazprombank, the third bank in the country, closely linked to the energy sector. In the list there would be the second Vtb bank.
According to sources cited by the site, the list was presented by the commission after consultations with the United States. And it was discussed in tonight’s meeting with Poland, the sources add, that he would have liked the list to be more “ambitious”.
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