Ministers expected to approve sanctions on hundreds of individuals, in move going beyond UK and US response
Russia’s defence minister, Sergei Shoigu, the commanders in chief of the Russian air force and Black Sea fleet, leading state “propagandists” and 351 Duma deputies are expected to be targeted in EU sanctions announced later on Wednesday.
The measures, which have to be signed off by EU foreign ministers, would go further than those announced by the US and a significant distance beyond Boris Johnson’s Russia sanctions.