BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union will shut down EU airspace to Russian plane, search to ban Russian state-owned media within the bloc and target Russian ally Belarus with sanctions, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen mentioned on Sunday.
Von der Leyen additionally mentioned that the EU would for the primary time finance the acquisition and supply of weapons and different tools to Ukraine.
“This is a watershed second for our Union,” she mentioned in a brief delivered assertion.
(Reporting by Sabine Siebold and Philip Blenkinsop; Editing by John Chalmers)
