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The European Commission, which draws up sanctions for the EU’s 27 countries, is preparing the text, which could be put to member states as early as Wednesday. Source link

‘As we face threats to our peace and prosperity from autocratic states, it is vital that democracies and friends stick together,’ Johnson said ahead of his first to India as British leader. Source link

German Finance Minister Christian Lindner on Monday rejected a European Union embargo on Russian gas imports as mounting civilian deaths in Ukraine increase pressure on the bloc to impose sanctions on Russia’s energy sector. “We are dealing with a criminal war,” Lindner said before talks with his EU colleagues in …

The European Commission called on EU governments on Monday to end national programmes to sell citizenship to investors, also known as golden passports schemes, and urged them to suspend the sale of visas to Russians and Belarusians.The move follows a new push from the European Parliament to shrink and regulate …

Vladimir Putin appeared at a huge flag-waving rally at a Moscow stadium on Friday and lavished praise on his troops fighting in Ukraine, three weeks into the invasion that has led to heavier-than-expected Russian losses on the battlefield and increasingly authoritarian rule at home.Meanwhile, the leader of Russia’s delegation in …

The Russian authorities are seeking a 13-year prison sentence for opposition leader Alexei Navalny in a trial Kremlin critics see as an attempt to keep President Vladimir Putin’s most ardent foe in prison for as long as possible.Navalny, who is already serving 2.5 years in a penal colony east of …

People walk past a crater from an explosion in Mira Avenue (Avenue of Peace) in Mariupol, Ukraine, on Sunday. The surrounded southern city, where the war has produced some of the greatest human suffering, is still cut off although some vehicles managed to leave in a convoy on Monday. Photo: …

The Kremlin said on Monday it had sufficient military clout to fulfil all of its aims in Ukraine without any help from China and that Russian forces could take full control of major Ukrainian cities.The United States and its European allies have cast President Vladimir Putin’s invasion as an imperial-style …

As Russian troops were closing in on the Ukrainian capital, more Russians spoke out on Saturday against the invasion, even as the government’s official rhetoric grew increasingly harsher.Street protests, albeit small, resumed in the Russian capital of Moscow, the second-largest city of St Petersburg and other Russian cities for the …

Russian President Vladimir Putin told the leaders of France and Germany on Monday that he planned to sign a decree recognising the two breakaway regions in eastern Ukraine as independent entities soon, the Kremlin said.The French and German leaders voiced disappointment after hearing the decision, the Kremlin said in a …