The EU’s long-delayed sixth package of sanctions against Russia required approval from all 27 member states.
European Council President Charles Michel said the compromise on oil sanctions reaffirmed the bloc's unity in response to the Kremlin's onslaught. It had been thought that a failure to secure any type of deal would likely have been heralded as a victory for Putin.
"Before it was impossible because it is very hard to ask India, for example, to drop their imports if Europe itself is not doing it. So, I think this is very important from the political point of view," he added.India has dismissed criticism of its continued purchases of Russian energy in the wake of the Kremlin's war in Ukraine.
, citing shipping data and unnamed oil traders. It appears to show the world's biggest importer of oil moving to fill the vacuum left by Western buyers severing ties with Russia over the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine.Alongside the EU's oil sanctions, the bloc agreed on measures to cut Russia's largest bank, Sberbank, from the SWIFT messaging system and to ban three more state-owned broadcasters.
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