European Union leaders will impose new sanctions on Russia, freezing its assets, halting its banks’ access to European financial markets and targeting “Kremlin interests” over its invasion of Ukraine, senior officials said on Thursday.
Russia launched a wide-ranging attack on Ukraine on Thursday, hitting cities and bases with airstrikes or shelling, as civilians piled into trains and cars to flee.
Greece is planning the evacuation of Greek nationals from Ukraine, diplomatic sources said on Thursday as Russian forces launched a wide-ranging attack with reports of missile strikes and explosions near major cities.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and ominous threat against those who get in its way mark a critical moment, the top EU diplomat said on Thursday, shortly after promising “the harshest package of sanctions we have ever implemented.”
A man was arrested in the region of Aetoloakarnania, western Greece, on Wednesday afternoon for possession of homemade explosive devices, detonators and drugs.
Earthmovers were working on the Corinth Canal on Thursday, after a large-scale restoration project got off the ground last week.
An upcoming second EU sanctions package will hit Russia’s economy severely, increasing capital outflow, raising inflation and gradually eroding its industrial basis, EU Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen said on Thursday.
Turkey backs Ukraine’s territorial integrity and is “sincerely saddened” by Russia’s invasion, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday, as Kyiv’s envoy to Ankara urged Turkey to close the Bosphorus straits to Russian warships.
The trial of a helicopter pilot charged with the premeditated murder of his British-Greek wife on May 11 last year, will start on April 8 before the Mixed Jury Court in Athens.
The European Central Bank (ECB) should continue its bond-buying stimulus programme at least until the end of the year and keep it open-ended to cushion the fallout from any conflict in Ukraine, ECB policymaker Yannis Stournaras told Reuters.