Hungary agreed not to veto the EU’s latest package of sanctions on Russia after pressuring the bloc to abandon “crazy ideas” such as blacklisting the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto has said.
EU foreign ministers formally adopted the bloc’s 15th package of economic penalties on Russia at a meeting in Brussels on Monday. The latest tranche of sanctions blacklists 54 people and 30 entities, including Russian military commanders, oil tankers allegedly connected to Russia, Russian defense firms, and “various Chinese actors” accused of supplying electronic components to Russia.
Beijing has long maintained that it does not supply any military goods or components to Moscow.