{"id":536253,"date":"2026-04-24T11:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T08:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=536253"},"modified":"2026-04-24T11:44:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T08:44:02","slug":"european-union-begins-work-on-21st-sanctions-package-against-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/european-union-begins-work-on-21st-sanctions-package-against-russia","title":{"rendered":"European Union Begins Work On 21st Sanctions Package Against Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The European Union is beginning work on a 21st package of sanctions against Russia, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy <b>Kaja Kallas<\/b> said.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;Prime ministers are really moving forward towards the 21st sanctions package. This sends a very clear signal to Russia that they cannot outweigh us. It also sends a clear signal to Russia that Ukraine is more important to us than it is to them, and we will continue to support it&#8221;<\/i>, she said ahead of an informal summit of EU leaders in Cyprus.<\/p>\n<p>The 20th sanctions package was officially approved on Thursday. It should be noted that it had been prepared several months ago, but its adoption was delayed due to Hungary\u2019s opposition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union is beginning work on a 21st package of sanctions against Russia, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Kaja Kallas said. &#8220;Prime ministers are really moving forward towards the 21st sanctions package. This sends a very clear signal to Russia that they cannot outweigh us. It also sends a clear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":536252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/69eb2d562e21a.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"European Union Begins Work On 21st Sanctions Package Against Russia"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143284],"tags":[143122],"class_list":["post-536253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","tag-rossija"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}