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The United States, United Kingdom and the European Union are set Wednesday to impose new punishing sanctions targeting Russia including a ban on all new investment in the country after evidence of torture and killings emerged in recent days from a town outside of Kyiv

Katerina Tikhonova, 35, and Mariya Vorontsova, 36, have now been targeted for the next tranche of sanctions

European Council president Charles Michel says European Union countries should think about ways to offer asylum to Russian soldiers willing to desert Ukraine battlefields

The European Union wants the war in Ukraine to end as soon as possible, but how that happens is important too, its chief diplomat said on Wednesday, calling for the bloc to send more arms to Kyiv.

The European Union will put more sanctions against Russia on top of the latest package announced on Tuesday, likely including measures against imports of Russian oil, the head of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen said on Wednesday.

Cross-party committee says labour shortages caused primarily by leaving EU will shrink UK food production unless dealt with

Oil futures rose on Wednesday, paring early losses, as the threat of new sanctions on Russia raised supply concerns, countering fears of weaker demand following a build in US crude stockpiles and Shanghai's extended lockdown. Brent crude futures were up 49 cents, or 0.5%, at $107.13 a barrel as of…

The United States and European Union were on Wednesday preparing to unveil broad new sanctions against Russia amid allegations of war crimes and the killing of civilians in the Ukrainian town of Bucha.

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The U.S. and its European allies will impose stiff new sanctions Wednesday, including a ban on new investments in Russia, in retaliation for Russia’s “war crimes” in Ukraine, according to the White House

The sanctions on Russia’s central bank use the omnipresence of the US dollar to penalise an American adversary