Condemning “in the strongest terms the unprovoked and unjustified military aggression” by Russia against Ukraine, EU leaders agreed unprecedented sanctions against Moscow on the night of 24-25 February, following those adopted on Wednesday (see EUROPE B12897A1).
“We don’t need sanctions that bark, we need sanctions that bite”, warned Belgian Prime Minister Alexander de Croo, calling it Europe’s darkest hour since the Second World War.
In the conclusions adopted, the EU27 warned...