EU Agrees to Russian Sanctions as Shooting Strains Truce

The European Union decided to enact new sanctions against Russia tomorrow, while promising to ease the curbs once President Vladimir Putin’s government makes a good-faith effort to bring peace to eastern Ukraine.

Ending days of wrangling, representatives of the 28 EU governments agreed to bar some Russian state-owned defense and energy companies from raising capital in the bloc, three EU officials said on condition of anonymity in Brussels. Some EU members had balked at the sanctions, saying they could hurt their economies and provoke Putin to break a fragile cease-fire between Ukrainian government forces and pro-Russian separatists, the officials said.