The head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrell, announced following an emergency meeting of EU foreign ministers on Friday, February 25, in Brussels, that Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov were included in the sanctions list, DW reports.. The EU Council at a meeting approved the second package of sanctions for Russia's start of a full-scale war against Ukraine.

German Foreign Minister Annalena Burbock announced that the European Union will introduce tough sanctions against President Putin and Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov. " This will destroy Russia,"

" Not only economically and financially, but also at the very core of power. Therefore, we have included in the sanctions lists not only oligarchs and a large number of parliamentarians, but also President Putin and Foreign Minister Lavrov,"

Annalena Burbock also explained why Russia's disconnection from the SWIFT international payment system is not yet planned. " As a result, we, for example, lost the opportunity to finance humanitarian projects,"

Shutting Russia off SWIFT could have a negative impact on Russians living abroad who send money to relatives in Russia, Burbock said.. At the same time, the head of the German Foreign Ministry did not rule out the possibility of disconnecting the Russian Federation from SWIFT in the future, when "