CNN learned that the EU will not include Rosatom in the 11th package of sanctions

CNN's source said that Rosatom will not be included in the new package of EU anti-Russian sanctions , but G7 leaders at the upcoming summit may impose restrictions on Russian diamonds. Moscow Considers Western Sanctionsillegitimate

The European Union will not include the state corporation Rosatom in the 11th anti-Russian package of sanctions, CNN reports citing a senior EU official.

According to him, Brussels believes that “sanctions alone” will not allow achieving independence from energy supplies from RUSSIA and there are “other ways to achieve the same goal.”

As the channel notes, despite the lifting of sanctions against Rosatom, the leaders of the G7 at the end of the summit in Hiroshima will call for independence from Russian nuclear energy sources.

The source also told CNN that sanctions on Russian diamonds are likely to be adopted at the upcoming G7 summit.

Rosatom is a Russian state corporation that combines assets in the fields of energy, engineering and construction, follows from the data on the organization's website. it accounts for 20% of all electricity generation in Russia. Rosatom has projects for the construction of 34 NPP units in 12 countries of the world, it deals with all technological chains of the nuclear fuel cycle - from the extraction of natural uranium to the final stage of the life cycle of nuclear facilities.

Before the start of the conflict in Ukraine, Russia was one of the main suppliers of uranium to the United States , as well as to the former Soviet republics in what is now the European Union. However, since February last year, Moscow stopped publishing customs foreign trade statistics.

Enriched uranium is exported from Russia by Rosatom's foreign trade company Techsnabexport (trademark TENEX). Last May, the HEAD of Rosatom, Alexei Likhachev, reported to the head of state that Russia had taken second place in uranium production in the world, confidently holds first place in enrichment and conversion, and is consistently among the top three in fuel fabrication.

In March last year, the United States imposed a ban on the import of energy resources from Russia - oil , oil products, coal and liquefied gas, while uranium was not subject to sanctions. REUTERS, citing sources, reported that US companies asked not to impose sanctions on uranium imports in order to prevent electricity prices from rising. In March, a group of US senators introduced a bill to ban Russian uranium imports.

The idea to include Russian uranium in the tenth EU sanctions package was also previously reported by Reuters, but the restrictions were not ultimately supported. According to the agency, Hungary, where Rosatom is building two new units for the Paks nuclear power plant, opposed it.

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Moscow considers Western sanctions illegal and illegitimate. According to President Vladimir Putin, the West's expectation of the collapse of the Russian economy did not materialize.