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Western sanctions against Russia in response to its invasion of Ukraine are already having "a strong impact" on its economy, Germany's finance minister Lindner says. SOUNDBITE of Christian Lindner
European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen says the EU will ban the Russian-owned Russia Today and Sputnik as well as their subsidiaries in the Union. SOUNDBITE
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says the UK has sanctioned officials running the Arctic penal colony where Russian opposition figure and critic of President Vladmir Putin Alexei Navalny died, saying Britian and its allies were considering "all options to hold Russia and Putin to account". "He died for a cause to which he dedicated his whole life - freedom - and to return home knowing that Putin had already tried to have him killed is one of the most courageous acts of our time," he tells members of parliament. SOUNDBITE
French President Emmanuel Macron attends a virtual emergency summit of G7 leaders alongside Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to discuss the large-scale Russian bombardment of Ukrainian territory the previous day. IMAGES
Images of the European court of Justice where Russian channel RT France challenges EU ban on broadcasting. IMAGES
EU chief Ursula von der Leyen says the EU will impose a gradual Russian oil ban, as Brussels unveils new sanctions to punish Russia for invading Ukraine. "We will make sure that we phase out Russian oil in an orderly fashion," says von der Leyen in speech to the European Parliament in Strasbourg. SOUNDBITE
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