The G7 foreign ministers and the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, promised on the evening of Friday 30 September to impose new sanctions on Russia following the announcement that the Ukrainian regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia would be incorporated into Russia.
Stressing that “President Putin’s efforts” to incorporate these regions into Russian territory were “a new low point in Russia’s blatant flouting...