After more than three and a half years of brutal war in Ukraine, the European Union has broken a long-held taboo: sanctions on Russian gas.

The bloc has long applied sanctions, which require the unanimous approval of all 27 member states, to imports of Russian oil and coal, but has left Russian gas untouched, causing dismay among Kyiv and Eastern European countries.

The thinking changed on Friday, when the European Commission proposed, FOR THE FIRST TIME, applying sanctions on Russian gas, specifically liquefied natural gas (LNG), which today continues to flow into Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Spain and Portugal.

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"So far we have not had sanctions on buying gas from Russia, and this will now change," Dan Jørgensen, the Euro

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