00:02the european union is set to propose to offer sanctions on russia this autumn the bloc's
00:08foreign policy chief kaya kalas said in an interview with german newspaper die welt
00:13she said the listing would raise the total number of sanctioned russian companies and
00:18individuals by a third in the interview she insisted that pressure on moscow needs to keep
00:24growing until it ends its war on ukraine the eu has passed 21 packages of sanctions targeting russian
00:30political and military leaders oligarchs and companies since the start of russia's full-scale
00:37invasion of ukraine in 2022 over 3 000 individuals and entities have been sanctioned so far with more
00:44than 28 billion euros in private assets in the eu frozen kalas said that the kremlin had already
00:51paid a high price for the eu sanctions estimating the economic cost to be at over 1 trillion euros
00:57any sanctions listing however would need to secure the unanimous approval of all 27 eu member states
01:04yet recent attempts to broaden the scope of eu sanctions on russia have been met with
01:09surprising resistance from some member states including greece
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