US EditionEU to impose sanctions on nine people for alleged war crimes in Ukraine's Bucha, says French minister
The EU will expand sanctions to include nine individuals implicated in Bucha war crimes, adding to 2,600 already sanctioned over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
- On March 16, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said the European Union is preparing to sanction nine people suspected of war crimes in Bucha ahead of an EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting.
- After Group of Seven talks, leaders agreed to maintain sanctions on Russia despite Iran tensions, with Ursula von der Leyen writing this is not the moment to relax sanctions and backing the International Energy Agency's release of 400 million barrels.
- The EU will also target propaganda, planning measures against four Kremlin propagandists, alongside sanctions on 29 individuals and 15 organizations from Ukraine's February list, according to the Office of the President of Ukraine.
- The EU will expand its individual sanctions regime, which recently covers approximately 2,600 individuals and entities, to include the targeted individuals named by Barrot, signaling continued support for Ukraine amid Macron’s warning on Iran tensions.
- Ursula von der Leyen, European Commission President, said 'this is not the moment to relax sanctions' and supported the International Energy Agency's release of 400 million barrels to stabilise energy markets amid Group of Seven unity.
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The European Union continues to add names to its already kilometre-long list of those sanctioned by the Russian war against Ukraine. Foreign ministers of the 27 Member States approved Monday to impose restrictive measures on nine Russian military personnel involved in the massacre of 2022 in the Ukrainian city of Bucha and elsewhere in the Kiev region. Among the names of those sanctioned — who will be prohibited from stepping on European soil an…
The sanctions provide for the freezing of assets and the prohibition of entry into the territory of the European Union.
The European Union has imposed sanctions against the nine Russian military forces, which "led their units at a time when hundreds of civilians were killed, in some cases as a result of brutal killings", as stated in the statement of the EU Mission in Russia.
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