The EU has imposed several rounds of sanctions against Russia's infamous "shadow fleet". But is there more to be done? View on euronews

The draft measures may also include new restrictions on Russian banks and a ban on constructing future Nord Stream gas pipelines. According to the report, EU officials want to disconnect more than 20 Russian banks from the SWIFT international payment system.

The European Union and U.K. have imposed fresh sanctions on Russia, notably targeting almost scores of ships from the shadow fleet illicitly transporting oil to skirt Western restrictions imposed over the war on Ukraine.

Ukraine will ask the EU next week to consider big new steps to isolate Moscow, including seizing Russian assets and bringing in sanctions for some buyers of Russian oil, as U.S. President Donald Trump has backed off from tightening sanctions.

President Donald Trump spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin about ending the war in Ukraine, hosted the president of South Africa at the White House and threatened more stringent tariffs against the European Union this week.

Moscow’s battlefield edge is waning, experts say. But President Donald Trump seems disinclined to ramp up pressure on the Kremlin to end the war in Ukraine.

Western leaders warn Putin is buying time as U.K. and EU announce sanctions targeting Russia's military, energy, and illegal oil transport amid ongoing Ukraine conflict.

The European Union's plan to ban Russian energy imports must be prevented "by all means", Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban told state radio on Friday.

The European Union on May 22 took a major step forward in ending imports of Russian and Belarusian nitrogen-based fertilizer products into the bloc by approving a schedule of increases in duties aimed at making it economically unviable to buy such products within the next three years.

Germany is asking the European Union (EU) to take much stronger steps to punish Russia for its ongoing war against Ukraine. Thorsten Frei, the chief of staff to Chancellor Friedrich Merz, has urged Europe to move “out of our comfort zone” and make decisions that will truly challenge Russia’s economy and leadership.