EU To Freeze Assets Of Putin And His Foreign Minister

The New York Times reports:

The European Union will freeze the assets of President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and his foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, but will not impose a travel ban on them, two diplomats familiar with the draft E.U. sanctions said on Friday.

The news, which was reported earlier by The Financial Times, came just hours after European leaders meeting into the early hours of Friday hammered out an agreement over a new set of sanctions that they said would hurt the Russian economy and put Mr. Putin under tremendous pressure as his troops advanced in their invasion of Ukraine.

The bloc’s 27 members had been able to push out a first set of sanctions on Wednesday in response to Mr. Putin’s recognition of separatist enclaves in Ukraine, and they did so in record time.

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