Hello and welcome to News Hour from the BBC World Service.
We are coming to you live from London.
I'm Rob Young.
Three and a half years into Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine,
European Union countries have agreed to slap yet more sanctions on Moscow.
This is the EU's 18th package of sanctions,
its 18th attempt to squeeze Russia's economy, in the hope that changes the Kremlin's behaviour.
So there's a plan to reduce the maximum price that countries are allowed to pay Russia for its exported oil,
from $60 a barrel now to just under $48.
Also about 100 oil tankers from Russia so-called shadow fleet to just be sanctioned and there'll be a ban on oil products made from Russian crude but which are refined in third countries such as Turkey.
These do not go as far as the threat by President Trump to impose sanctions not just on Russia but on nations that do business with Russia
if there isn't a ceasefire within a few weeks.
So will Europe's sanctions finally work?
The Foreign Minister of Poland is Radek Sikorski.
Well,
I think it's very important to put shadow fleet tankers on the sanctions list
because these are vessels that are dangerous,
particularly to the Baltic Sea, which is a shallow, closed sea.
These are ancient vessels.
If one of them spilled the oil into the Baltic, we would have a major disaster.