“From our point of view, the seventh package of sanctions should be imposed on Russia as soon as possible,” Polish Foreign Ministry spokesman Lukas Jasina said ahead of a meeting of European Union foreign ministers in Luxembourg on Monday. we will continue this, we have the support of our Baltic partners, and we hope that other Europeans will also agree to tougher sanctions.”

For his part, Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Marcin Brzydacz believes that “the sixth package of European sanctions hit Russia hard”, but at the same time called for additional and “harder” sanctions. He said his country is “pressuring European partners to support the imposition of the seventh round of sanctions”, adding: “We must act in a coordinated way, like Europeans.”

The European Union announced earlier this month a sixth round of sanctions against Russia that includes cutting Russian oil imports by 90 percent by the end of this year. The sanctions temporarily exclude the passage of oil through the pipeline.

While the United States and other countries have imposed several packages of unprecedented sanctions against Russia due to its military operations in Ukraine, as these sanctions affected the financial and economic sectors and included a ban on international banking transactions through the SWIFT system, as well as an asset freeze by the Central Bank Russian Federation in Western countries, as well as the closure of airspace for Russian aircraft, in addition to trying to find alternatives to Russian energy and gas resources.