Estonia would also like to see a considerable expansion of sanctions on the travel of Russian citizens.
Foreign Minister Urmas Reinsalu emphasised that Estonia was working towards a consensus in the entire Schengen visa area to impose additional sanctions on Russian citizens as Estonia has already done. “As the foreign minister, I call on other European governments to introduce additional domestic sanctions to stop the travel of the nationals of the aggressor state Russia and work together towards closing the Schengen area to Russian citizens.”
Since Russia started its full-scale war against Ukraine, Estonia and the European Union have continued to impose sanctions against Russia. Seven sanctions packages have been introduced so far with the aim of using sanctions to raise the cost of the aggression for Russia to paralyse its economy and make it impossible for it to finance the war.
