EU to extend sanctions against Russia

Brussels European Union leaders agreed yesterday to extend until the end of January next year their economic sanctions against Russia over its 2014 annexation of Crimea and the turmoil in eastern Ukraine. The EU hit Russia's energy, financial and arms sectors over Moscow's role i

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Published 1 January 2015, 8:00 · Updated 21:46

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European Union leaders agreed yesterday to extend until the end of January next year their economic sanctions against Russia over its 2014 annexation of Crimea and the turmoil in eastern Ukraine.

The EU hit Russia’s energy, financial and arms sectors over Moscow’s role in the conflict in Ukraine, and prolonged them repeatedly as the Kremlin vows not to return the peninsula to Kyiv and a frozen conflict has taken hold in Ukraine’s east.

EU to extend sanctions against Russia

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