EU to impose new sanctions on Russia

The European Union foreign police chief, said Tuesday that the EU is preparing to introduce sanctions on more Russian individuals and organisations to pressure Moscow to end its support of separatists in eastern Ukraine, reports the BBC.

“Those directly or indirectly responsible for bringing down this plane must be held accountable and held to justice,” said Catherine Ashton after a meeting of European Foreign Ministers.

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