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European Union agrees to near total ban on Russian oil imports

Ukraine: Lugansk Region in Ukraine

A local school destroyed by shelling in the village of Smolyanynove, east of Severodonetsk (AAP) Source: AAP / TASS/Sipa USA

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says that the EU's decision to cut the bulk of Russian oil imports means that the Kremlin won't be able to spend tens of billions of euros 'to finance terror'.



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