EU to extend sanctions on Russia until 2020
Leaders set to renew curbs on Russian energy, defence and financial sectors for turmoil in Ukraine
20 June 2019 - 18:45
Brussels — EU leaders will decide on Thursday to prolong until the end of January 2020 economic sanctions against Russia over the turmoil in Ukraine and call on Moscow to help bring to justice those guilty of shooting down a passenger plane there in 2014.
The EU slapped sanctions on Russia after Moscow annexed Crimea from Ukraine in March 2014 and went on to support rebels fighting Kiev troops in the east of the country. That conflict, which killed 13,000 people, is still simmering...
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