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‘Next sanctions will be more difficult’: Estonia

Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas told reporters as she arrived at the summit on Tuesday that “we have to discuss already the seventh package” of sanctions.

“As long as the war if going on, there is no peace, Ukraine hasn’t won the war, we haven’t done enough.

“All the next sanctions will be more difficult,” she went on, as they are “now also having effects on Europeans.”

“I think gas has to be in the seventh package but I have to be realistic and I don’t think it will be there,” she also said.

On the sixth round of sanctions, agreed the previous night, she said that “everybody was constructive.”

“If I had to choose between a compromise or no sanction at all then I think it’s a fair compromise,” she added.