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Zelensky says he thinks EU countries are ready to impose oil embargo on Russia.

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President Volodymyr Zelensky urged the European Union to impose a “full embargo” on Russian oil and gas, telling European Council President Charles Michel that an oil embargo should be part of the sixth package of sanctions against Russia, otherwise it “will not be powerful, but will be empty."

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