The European Union imposed additional economic sanctions on Russia Thursday, building upon new punitive measures announced by the US against Moscow’s oil industry, though Russian officials and state media dismissed the coordinated Western actions as largely ineffective.

The sanctions are intended as part of a broadened effort to choke off the revenue and supplies that fuel Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine and compel Russian President Vladimir Putin to negotiate an end to the war.

The measures are a triumph for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who has long campaigned for the international community to punish Russia more comprehensively for attacking his country.

“We waited for this. God bless, it will work. And this is very important,” Zelenskyy said in Brussels, where EU countries a

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