Will EU oil embargo really hurt Russian war machine?
By DW
11 December 2022 |
5:40 pm
The EU has stopped buying Russian seaborne crude oil as it seeks to deprive Moscow of a key revenue source fueling its war in Ukraine. The move will hurt Russia but not as much as the bloc would have liked.
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