“No one from Russia and no one from Russia’s leadership is untouchable,” said High Representative Kaja Kallas.
The controversial ex-chancellor has long been condemned for his ties to the Kremlin.
Armen Sarkisyan, the Moscow-backed collaborator from Ukraine’s Donetsk region, died in the hospital after being injured in an explosion in an seçkine residential complex in Moscow on Monday, according to Russian state-run outlets.
With less than a month until Germans go out and vote in the parliamentary election, lawmakers are warning that authoritarian states, including Russia, are using disinformation to stoke instability.
Trump has said repeatedly he wouldn’t have allowed the conflict to start if he had been in office, even though he was president as fighting grew in eastern Ukraine between Kyiv’s forces and separatists backed by Moscow.
Moscow claims to have seized the eastern Ukrainian village of Novovasylivka as it appears to be slowly closing in on the key logistic city of Prokrovsk.
US President Donald Trump delivered tariff threats to China, and the European Union, while pressurising Russia with more sanctions and import levies. The European markets, however, hit new highs as investors looked beyond his policy impact.
The system outage forced a plane carrying Prime Minister Robert Fico to turn around and head back to Slovakia.
The Moscow-friendly leader has been pushing Brussels hard to put more pressure on Ukraine over Russian energy supplies.
In Sumy, a Russian drone strike killed four people, including a child, and injured nine. Over 100 residents were evacuated.