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EU ambassadors again fail to reach agreement on sanctions on Russian oil imports.
They held a meeting in Brussels this morning after failing to find a way forward for the sixth package of sanctions yesterday.
Compromise plans aimed at taking oil from the sea and leaving the pipelines for later have been discussed in recent weeks. Officials had hoped to reach an agreement by Monday afternoon, when EU leaders will gather in Brussels for an emergency summit.
While it is thought that leaders are unlikely to make progress on the very detailed, technical aspects of the proposals and it is not even specifically on the agenda some member states may raise the issue, either in the hall or bilaterally.
President of Ukraine Zelensky will also attend the summit. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban wrote to the European Council last week saying he thought oil sanctions should not even be discussed by leaders, as this would only highlight divisions.
The Hungarian government has compared the ban on oil to dropping a nuclear bomb on its economy.
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