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RFE/RL: EU ministers extend Crimea sanctions for another year

Published June 18, 2018 at 1:00 pm

The Russian flag flutters on the rooftop of the Russian embassy in Kyiv on March 28, 2018.Ukraine is to expel 13 Russian diplomats as part of a coordinated effort by European nations and the US to punish Russia over an attack on a former Russian spy in England. Poroshenko announced Monday. "In response to a cynical chemical attack in Salisbury, Ukraine, in the spirit of solidarity with our British partners and transatlantic allies and in coordination with EU countries, decided to expel 13 Russian diplomats from the few that remain (in Kyiv)," Poroshenko said in a statement.

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European Union agricultural ministers have prolonged the bloc’s investment ban against Crimea for another year.

The ministers extended the restrictive measures, which were adopted in 2014 in response to Russia’s illegal annexation of the Ukrainian peninsula, during a meeting in Luxembourg on June 18.