The EU approves the fifth round of sanctions.
The European Union on Thursday approved a fifth round of sanctions against Russia over its occupation of Ukraine, according to the French Presidency of the Council of Europe.
The new measures include banning Russian coal imports as well as an embargo on arms exports to Russia.
It also includes closing EU ports to Russian ships and banning exports of high-tech products to Moscow.
The legal text, which includes the names of “oligarchs, Russian propaganda actors, members of the security and military apparatus and entities in the industrial and technological sector,” will be officially published on Friday.
Otherwise, Russia today is expelled from the United Nations Human Rights Council.