On Wednesday 9 March, EU Member States agreed on additional sanctions against Russia and Belarus in retaliation for the invasion of Ukraine.
The Europeans decided to sanction 160 more people: 146 members of the Council of the Russian Federation who ratified government decisions on the Treaties of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance between Russia and the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics, and 14 oligarchs and businessmen involved in the metallurgical, agricultural,...