Poroshenko and Zelenskyy have long and diligently fought back from the implementation of the Minsk agreements. [...] Kyiv not only denied the implementation of the Minsk agreements but also Kyiv, using the so-called "toad jumping" technology, gradually captured the gray zone located between combat positions. [...] Kyiv did not want to perform "Minsk", and now it is possible not to perform it. But it turned out that the Minsk agreements, among other things, guaranteed the security of the Ukrainian authorities.
Summary
Josep Borrell personally declared two months ago that the European sanctions regime is no longer useful, neither against Russia nor against any other country, and [he said] we must think about finding other mechanisms to make the EU's voice heard internationally.
Disproof
Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative about sanctions.
EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell has constantly supported imposing restrictive measures to “intervene where necessary to prevent conflict or respond to emerging or current crises”.
On several occasions, Borrell has been a supporter of such measures, emphasising that “sanctions are always effective because they affect [targeted] people. They affect their wealth, and their capacity of movement”, and has even recently commented on the recent aggression on Ukraine by saying “The EU will respond in the strongest possible terms and agree on the harshest package of sanctions we have ever implemented”.
It is worth noting that EU sanctions are legitimate restrictions imposed in accordance with international and European law. Through restrictive measures, the EU intervenes where appropriate to respond to emerging or current crises. EU sanctions are carefully targeted and designed to be proportionate to the objectives they seek to achieve.
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