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    49 minutes ago

    Hungary and Slovakia, the EU’s two most pro-Moscow countries that remain heavily dependent on imports of Russian energy, supported the package due to its relative weakness, EU diplomats said.

    Finance ministers from Sweden and Lithuania explicitly called for an 18th package of sanctions after Russia ignored the EU’s Monday deadline for a 30-day ceasefire.

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    4 hours ago

    almost 200 members of Russia’s “shadow fleet” of oil-exporting vessels

    Why do they sanction crew members rather than ships?