EU agrees 18th sanctions package against Russia
Its latest sanctions package on Russia will lower the G7's price cap for crude oil to $47.6 per barrel, diplomats told Reuters.
"The EU just approved one of its strongest sanctions package against Russia to date," said the EU's foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas on X.
"We will keep raising the costs, so stopping the aggression becomes the only path forward for Moscow," added Kallas.
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