Context
The military conflict in Syria has lasted since 2011. At different times, government troops, opposition forces, radical Islamists, Kurds, militants of the Islamic state, as well as the armed forces of the country of aggressor of the Russian Federation, the USA, Iran and Turkey participated in the fighting at different times.
At the end of November 2024, the opposition to the ex-president of Syria Bashar Assad groups began an offensive on Aleppo, the second largest city of Syria, which was controlled by government troops since 2016. Already on December 8, Syrian rebels announced the liberation of Damascus from the regime of the capital of Syria.
Assad himself escaped. On December 8, the Russian Federation stated that it is in Russian territory.
On December 11, Bloomberg wrote that the Russian authorities convinced Assad in his future losing war to the rebels and invited him to be evacuated safely.
In January 2025 Reuters It wrote that the EU would probably weaken sanctions against Syria in stages in order to maintain the country in the transition period and at the same time preserve the levers of influence. We are talking about the import of oil from Syria, investments in the Syrian oil industry, the work of the country's banks and, in particular, the assets of the Syrian Central Bank in the EU.
On January 27, Kallas stated that the EU foreign ministers agreed on the road map of the weakening of European sanctions against Syria, emphasizing that Europe can cancel the weakening of sanctions if Damascus will take “wrong steps”.
On February 7, Bloomberg, with reference to familiar sources, wrote that the EU discusses a partial suspension of certain sanctions regarding the energy industry of Syria, including the abolition of the prohibition on the import of raw oil and the export of technology for the oil and gas sphere.
On February 24, the EU suspended restrictive measures for the main sectors of the Syrian economy, the European Union Council informs. The Foreign Ministry of Ukraine on February 25 stated that after more than the “decade of suffering” related to the board of the Assad regime, the Syrians “deserve the restoration of normal life.”
