The permanent representatives of the countries - members of the European Union could not come to an agreement on the rejection of Russian oil, Reuters writes.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky takes drugs, after which he makes statements similar to the demand for reparations from Russia to restore his country, Sergei Tsekov said.

Russia needs to strengthen the ruble in order to have time to buy the equipment necessary for import substitution before the next package of Western sanctions, economist Alexander Losev said.

The European Commission intends to ban individuals and legal entities from Russia from buying property in Europe as part of the sixth round of sanctions, Bloomberg reported.

Refusal to purchase Russian gas may lead to the loss of about 565 thousand jobs in Italy, the newspaper Corriere della Sera writes.

The UK Foreign Office has imposed sanctions against Russian war correspondents, journalists and publications.

Press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov spoke about the possible expansion of Vladimir Putin's decree on counter-sanctions by adding new acts to it.

EU countries will not soon be able to refuse to purchase Russian oil, for which, perhaps, they will also have to pay in rubles.

The flags of Ukraine have been removed from public transport in Warsaw, where they were placed for more than two months as part of a solidarity action with Ukraine, a TASS correspondent reports.

Residents of Russia began to complain more often about banks that fell under Western sanctions, the Central Bank of the Russian Federation reported.