Hello Paula.

I wanted to ask for your reaction to the fact that Russia completely

ignored the deadline imposed by the coalition

of the willing to implement the ceasefire

by the end of Monday.

You have threatened to ramp up pressure if this were to happen.

What's your reaction and are you willing to move forward with the extra pressure?

Thank you.

I need that to come

up.

Thank you.

What we have seen in the past

3 years or close to 4 years now is that Poutine cannot be trusted,

and what we have seen also is that actions speak louder than words.

Just

on the Sunday night we have seen over 100 drones

flying over

Ukraine.

innocent people once more.

So what we have now is an unconditional ceasefire that

President Zelensky

has agreed

upon.

We have Ukraine

remaining strong

as our support as well,

so now the ball is in Russia's court.

The

Yes,

Angela.

Angela Skujins from TVP World,

just following up from that answer.

So how is,

how is the EU interpreting this silence

from Poutine that he is ignoring

this request?

Thank you.

Probably been surprised by the readiness of President Zelensky

to meet in person,

and so we look forward to seeing

President Putin's readiness to meet President Zelensky

on Thursday.

Yeah.

Thomas Nelson,

Euractiv

A lot of leaders and ministers from different European countries

have called for an additional round of sanctions on Russia

due to its failure to

agree to the ceasefire.

So this would be an additional round of sanctions on top of the 17th 1,

which should be agreed tomorrow at CO.

Is this something that the commission is preparing right now,

namely an 18th round of sanctions,

and if so,

what would this package include?

Thanks.

Thank you.

As always,

our work on sanctions is confidential.

What we do is to work with all

our strength to ensure that all options are on the

table when it comes to increasing the pressure on Russia.

Yes,

and we can confirm that in the absence of a ceasefire,

as has been indicated by several

leaders by

HRVP Kallas and President von der Leyen herself,

we are indeed looking into further sanctions.

Further questions to Anitta.

Yes,

Sylvia.

Sylvia newspaper.

Despite all the diplomatic efforts,

several leaders,

European leaders have made this past year since the weekend

on Ukraine,

Europe seems once again sidelined.

There's no invitation,

no place for Europe or a European leader in Istanbul.

Do you think that

how do you see that?

Are we once again not at the table despite everything and

What do you mean with more sanctions?

Would that imply the US on board or just Europe

going harder?

If I

may start there,

first of all,

we would welcome that indeed President

Poutine does meet with President Zelensky for the first time

in many years and certainly since the war started,

and that there is a direct dialogue on Thursday.

As to the EU,

as you've been seeing both at EU level and the many

representatives of several of several governments within

the EU have been working very,

very closely with President Zelensky,

with President Trump,

precisely in terms of ensuring

pressure

for a ceasefire

and to ensure that such talks.

Can take place sanctions are part of this action,

so clearly I would refute your claim

that the European partners are not part.

They are clearly part and this has been also very

clear in the past days and weeks in terms

of all the work that is being done to strengthen

Ukraine,

to strengthen also President Zelensky.

Anything else?

Yes,

just just yesterday also the High Representative was in London.

You have seen the Weimarla also her remarks

where she also had a call with Marco Rubio.

So we're in very close contact with our partners in putting pressure on Russia.

Other questions Juanita?

Yes,

Angela.

Speaking of sanctions

on Russia,

if there was a certain member state that perhaps

wanted to block the rollover of economic sanctions on

Russia,

could the EU circumvent this by imposing capital controls or tariffs

on Russia?

Thank you.

We are working on all possible scenarios,

as you know,

always the approach is

to have all our member states alone.

That is uh the always the,

the main objective is to have unanimous support.

to anything that we put forward on sanctions.

This is still

the main objective,

and we are working essentially on that objective,

before considering other options.

Further questions.

To Anitta,

nope.

I still see a question on foreign affairs.

yes,

now I see Matthieu

Matthieuion.

Is it for Anitta

online?

Can you see me?

Nope.

I try to fix that.

OK,

we try to get

back to you,

Matthieu,

and another foreign affairs question,

but this time

for

Anouar,

I think Moses.