"We're not planning to implement secondary sanctions because we do not think that they're needed,” Adeyemo said at the Columbia Global Energy Summit in Washington. “Ultimately, the thing we are working towards is creating economic incentives for all parties to be in a position where you are continuing to allow oil to flow [while] bringing down the costs for buyers and revenue for Russia, which we think economically makes sense for all players here."
“Energy is what develops us … energy is what becomes a target for the criminal actions of terrorists, as we saw with [Nord] Stream [pipelines] and energy is what the future of all mankind, including our country, is connected with,” Peskov said.
"I expect that the ministers will agree to review our guidelines for stocks and also to engage more with industry. … the NATO defense planning process, we have the capability targets we have the work on standardization, on interpretability, all of these are unique NATO tools that enable us to engage with the industry and provide the industry the long-term demand they need to invest more in production capacity, so they can produce more weapons, more ammunition. All those capabilities we need both to ensure our own deterrence and deface but also to continue and support Ukraine," Stoltenberg said before the meeting of NATO defense ministers.
“Here we can talk about accidental damage,” Berger told Reuters.
"IRIS-Ts from Germany are already here. US NASAMS are coming. This is only the beginning. And we need more," Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksi Reznikov tweeted.
