Austria vs. In the European Union again disagreed against the Russian Federation

According to journalist Ricarda Jazvak, Austria is dissatisfied with the fact that Ukraine has introduced Austrian Raiffeisen Bank International to the list of international sponsors of war. Representatives of the EU countries still cannot agree on the 12th EU sanctions package against Russia. This time, contradictions arose because of the position of Austria, which expresses dissatisfaction with the list of sponsors of war is featured Raiffeisen Bank.

This was reported by Radio Svoboda journalist on Europe Ricard Jezvyak in his Twitter (X). According to him, Austria's dissatisfaction is the fact that Ukraine has made Austrian Raiffeisen Bank International to the list of international sponsors of war. "The EU ambassadors have not yet agreed on the 12th Package of Sanctions on the Russian Federation. Now Austria complains that Raiffeisen Bank has got into Ukrainian blacklist of NGOs," the journalist wrote.

Raiffeisen is one of the few European banks that continues its operations in Russia. In addition, the Bank additionally won from sanctions that forced its competitors to leave the Russian market, thereby increasing its share by 200%. We will remind, NAPC called the Austrian company Raiffeisen Bank with an international sponsor of war.

It is indicated that this financial institution is part of the interests of the Putin oligarchs of Arcadia and Boris Rottenberg, in 2022 paid half a billion rubles of taxes to the Russian budget, provides the military of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation with credit holidays and operates on the territory of the occupied units of Donetsk and Luhansk regions. Raiffeisen, a group of companies - in addition to the banking sector, there is still leasing and insurance.

The sanctions were imposed only on Raiffeisen-Lising LLC and only Ukraine. Due to sanctions to the Maternal Bank (due to the presence in the Russian Federation), the Ukrainian "Raiffeisen Bank" lost the opportunity to participate in the government program "5-7-9%", which aims to issue preferential loans to Ukrainian business.