Air raid sirens sounded across Ukraine on Friday as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy hosted EU leaders to discuss further Russian sanctions.
With thick snow falling, EU commission president Ursula von der Leyen visited an EU-backed scheme to let Ukrainians trade old light bulbs for energy efficient ones, to reduce demand on a power grid damaged by Russian attacks. Foreign policy chief Josep Borrell toured a demining site.
The Kremlin said the ban would unbalance global energy markets but Moscow was acting to mitigate its impact. The finance ministry said it would almost treble its daily sales of foreign currency to 8.9 billion roubles a day over the next month to compensate for lower oil and gas revenue. Authorities were investigating senior military officials in two cases of suspected corruption, officials said on Thursday. Separately, a criminal group suspected of embezzling state funds by selling overpriced foodstuffs to defence officials had been arrested, the State Bureau of Investigation said.
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