Western countries have brought an unprecedented campaign of financial and economic penalties against Russia in response to the Kremlin’s decision to attempt to topple the government in Kyiv last year and takeover Ukraine.”On the whole, the 12th package shows that, perhaps, the pool of sectors where sanctions can be imposed is being exhausted,” the Kremlin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.

The European Union on Monday adopted the new package of sanctions that include an import ban on Russian diamonds.The ban covers natural and synthetic varieties as well as in jewellery from January, and Russian diamonds cut in other countries as from September next year.Moscow is accused of helping to fill its war chest with proceeds from diamond sales, which are worth an estimated $4 bill…