Berlin - German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said that further restrictive measures could be introduced against Russia.
“They [further sanctions] are not an end in itself for us. However, we will
introduce them if necessary,” she said at a congress of the Christian Democratic
Union (CDU) in Cologne on Dec. 9.
According to Merkel, the main purpose of maintaining pressure on Russia is
“to ensure the inviolability of the territorial borders of Ukraine,” which, in
turn, can decide about its future in a self-determined way.
