EU agrees to new Russia sanctions

EU agrees to new Russia sanctions

The European Union has agreed its latest round of sanctions against Russia following its invasion of Ukraine. Alex Cadier reports from Brussels that the new measures will target the Russian energy sector and clamp down on sanctions circumvention.

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Bulgaria’s nuclear plant starts to replace Russian fuel

Bulgaria's sole nuclear power plant began to use atomic fuel produced by US group Westinghouse in one of its reactors Monday, in the latest effort to reduce its dependence on Russian energy. The state-owned Kozloduy plant on the Danube river supplies more than a third of the country's electricity and has so far relied on Russian fuel for its two operational Soviet-built 1,000-megawatt reactors. The oldest reactor […]

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