EU mulls further sanctions on Russia over Crimea


March 20, 2014 at 10:24a.m.

EU mulls further sanctions on Russia over Crimea

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia faces further sanctions from the European Union today over its annexation of the Crimean Peninsula as tensions in the region remained high despite the release of a Ukrainian naval commander. In an address to the German Parliament in Berlin, Chancellor Angela Merkel said the EU was readying further sanctions and that the G-8 forum of leading economies had been suspended indefinitely. Russia holds the presidency of the G-8 and President Vladimir Putin was due to host his counterparts, including President Barack Obama, at a summit in Sochi in June.