The European Union joined the US in heaping more economic sanctions on Russia Thursday — adding to President Trump’s latest punitive measures to choke off the revenue that’s funding Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.

EU countries formally adopted the sanctions — including a ban on Russian liquefied natural gas imports — as part of a broadened push to force President Vladimir Putin to negotiate an end to the war.

The EU measures largely target Russian oil and gas, the Russian shadow fleet of aging tankers and Russia’s financial sector. 3

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A triumphant Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky celebrated the new sanctions and urged more countries to punish Russia even further.

“We waited for this. God bless, it will work. And this is very important,” Zelensky said.

“This is a good signa

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