The European Union added two deputy Russian ministers, along with a host of senior members of the administrations in the breakaway regions of Luhansk and Donetsk, to its latest round of sanctions over the ongoing crisis in Ukraine. Russia’s deputy minister of defence Anatoly Antonov and first deputy minister of defence Arkady Bakhin, alongside the head of the Moscow branch of the Communist Party Valery Rashkin and State Duma deputy Iosif Kobzon find themselves added to the sanctions ‘black list’ for their alleged role in “supporting the deployment of Russian troops in Ukraine”. In total, the EU is now targeting …read more
Source: Business Insider
