Flags on the building of the Estonian Embassy in Moscow. File photoHELSINKI, May 4. Estonian Foreign Minister Eva-Maria Liimets called on the EU to prepare a new — seventh — package of sanctions against Russia. Earlier on Wednesday, the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, announced the sixth package of anti-Russian sanctions, in which will be Sberbank and other large banks of the Russian Federation, three leading Russian TV channels, as well as new individuals. The package also provides for a phased full oil embargo. According to the Estonian Foreign Minister, the European Union has demonstrated exceptional unity in adopting new sanctions and now it is important to move on. «It is important to start discussing those areas of the Russian economy, those sectors that we have not yet been able to agree on. Such a movement step by step, we now have it, and this is the most important thing, so that after the adoption of the sixth package of sanctions, we would start moving towards the seventh package of sanctions,» the press service of the Foreign Ministry quoted Liimets as saying on Wednesday.
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