15:54
28.4.2014
!!! BREAKING NEWS !!!
Diplomats say the European Union is adding 15 more names to its list of individuals hit by sanctions in response to Russia's actions in Ukraine.
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15:59
28.4.2014
Slovyansk "People's Mayor" Ponomaryov: "We didn't shoot Kernes" http://t.co/aKp75dg3o3
— Paul Sonne (@PaulSonne) April 28, 2014
16:00
28.4.2014
MT @russian_market: That akward moment when USA imposes sanctions on Russian banks, but Bank of America crashes -5%. pic.twitter.com/WzaOL7lWGI
— Paul Sonne (@PaulSonne) April 28, 2014
16:04
28.4.2014
Our news desk has some more details on the EU's latest raft of sanctions:
Diplomats say EU governments have reached a preliminary agreement to add 15 more names to its list of individuals hit by sanctions in response to Russia's actions in Ukraine.
Western news agencies cite diplomats as saying the 15 will be subjected to the same visa bans and asset freezes imposed on more than 50 others as Moscow shows no sign of reversing course on Ukraine.
EU diplomats met today in Brussels to consider the additional sanctions. The sources said the EU procedure to approve the sanctions will end later this evening but is considered a formality.
The names of those to be added to the list will not be made public until they are published in the EU's Official Journal, most likely tomorrow.
The decision brings the total number of Russians or pro-Russian individuals in Ukraine targeted by EU sanctions to 48.
Western news agencies cite diplomats as saying the 15 will be subjected to the same visa bans and asset freezes imposed on more than 50 others as Moscow shows no sign of reversing course on Ukraine.
EU diplomats met today in Brussels to consider the additional sanctions. The sources said the EU procedure to approve the sanctions will end later this evening but is considered a formality.
The names of those to be added to the list will not be made public until they are published in the EU's Official Journal, most likely tomorrow.
The decision brings the total number of Russians or pro-Russian individuals in Ukraine targeted by EU sanctions to 48.
16:19
28.4.2014
16:41
28.4.2014
США наклали санкції на 17 російських компаній http://t.co/4C38XYHSav pic.twitter.com/kz0dAF0gYS
— Hromadske.TV (@HromadskeTV) April 28, 2014
16:44
28.4.2014
#sanctioned Sechin regularly takes part in investor phone calls and meets with Western investors as the big investors days in London.
— Ben Judah (@b_judah) April 28, 2014
16:50
28.4.2014
"Russian TV made Slovyansk look like Guernica; Ukrainian media (said) were using kindergartners as human shields." http://t.co/R0OJPwMjGc
— Paul Sonne (@PaulSonne) April 28, 2014
17:03
28.4.2014
The "Kyiv Post" has more details on the condition of Kharkiv Mayor Hennadiy Kernes:
An ambulance transported Kernes to the Surgery Institute in Kharkiv, where doctors pronounced his condition as “critical.”
“Several internal organs have been injured. There’s bleeding and shock. The bleeding has been stopped, and emergency doctors are treating him for shock,” Dr. Valeriy Boyko, who performed a two-hour “successful” surgery on the mayor, told reporters on Monday.
He said Kernes had suffered a “serious thoracoabdominal injury caused by damage to the diaphragm resulting in an aperature between the chest and abdomen.” Kernes was still anesthetized and in critical condition at the time of the doctors remarks Monday afternoon.
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An ambulance transported Kernes to the Surgery Institute in Kharkiv, where doctors pronounced his condition as “critical.”
“Several internal organs have been injured. There’s bleeding and shock. The bleeding has been stopped, and emergency doctors are treating him for shock,” Dr. Valeriy Boyko, who performed a two-hour “successful” surgery on the mayor, told reporters on Monday.
He said Kernes had suffered a “serious thoracoabdominal injury caused by damage to the diaphragm resulting in an aperature between the chest and abdomen.” Kernes was still anesthetized and in critical condition at the time of the doctors remarks Monday afternoon.
Read more here
17:10
28.4.2014
Khodorkovsky "has nothing to say" about seeing Sechin, who he thinks dismantled his empire & jailed him for 10 years, sanctioned by the U.S.
— max seddon (@maxseddon) April 28, 2014