Expectation for ceasefire, EU renews sanctions against Russia

The names removed are those of entrepreneurs Vladimir Rashevsky and Vyacheslav Kantor, Russian Sports Minister Mikhail DegtyArev, and oligarch sister Alisher Usmanov, indicated diplomatic sources.

Hungary justified the initial opposition to the renewal of sanctions on the grounds that it did not want to obstruct the ongoing negotiations between Americans and Russians to end the conflict.

Sanctions should be unanimously renewed by March 15 or would lose the effect.

In a message on social network X, the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, pointed out: “Our determination to support Ukraine is decisive. The EU increases its pressures on Russia.”

The 27 countries of the European bloc approved in February the 16th package of restrictive measures against citizens and institutions in Russia due to war with Ukraine.