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The European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen has proposed a phased oil embargo on Russia over its war in Ukraine, as well as sanctioning the country's top bank, in a bid to deepen Moscow's isolation.

The European Commission has proposed sanctions against Credit Bank of Moscow and the Russian Agricultural Bank, two EU sources told Reuters on Wednesday.

The European Commission on Wednesday proposed its sixth and toughest round of sanctions against Russia yet that could be signed off by ambassadors of EU governments later in the week.

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Slovakia also wants exemption despite Ursula von der Leyen saying crude must be prohibited in EU within six months

The EU chief concedes that that getting all 27 member countries — some of them highly dependent on Russia for energy supplies — to agree on oil sanctions will be extremely difficult.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has called on the bloc to ban oil imports from Russia by the end of the year in a sixth package of sanctions targeting Moscow for its war in Ukraine.

The European Union will ban three Russian state-owned broadcasters as part of a sixth sanctions package over Moscow's war in Ukraine, the bloc's chief executive said on Wednesday.

The European Union's executive on Wednesday proposed the toughest package of sanctions yet against Moscow for its war in Ukraine, but several countries worried about the impact of cutting off Russia oil imports stood in the way of agreement.

The European Commission says fines imposed on Poland for its refusal to scrap a controversial disciplinary mechanism for judges had crossed €160 million, and would be cut from the EU budget allocation for Poland.

The European Union will slap new sanctions on Russia for waging war against Ukraine, targeting Moscow's oil industry, more Russian banks and those responsible for disinformation, the EU's top diplomat said on Tuesday. "We are working on the sixth package of sanctions which aims to de-SWIFT more banks, list disinformation…