Ukraine Leader Says Putin Seeks to Restore Soviet Union

Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said Russian President Vladimir Putin seeks to restore the Soviet Union and take the entire Ukraine, while Kiev’s central bank chief predicted her country’s economy may shrink as much as 10 percent this year.

The U.S. expanded sanctions against Russia to include the country’s largest bank, OAO Sberbank, because of the fighting in eastern Ukraine. The European Union added 15 companies, including Gazprom Neft, OAO Rosneft and Transneft, and 24 people to its own list of those affected by its restrictions.