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EU ambassadors agreed to the bloc's largest-ever expansion of Russia sanctions on October 7-8, 2026, adding more than 1,500 individuals and entities and bringing the total under EU sanctions over the war to nearly 4,650; the package was adjusted to exclude a Russian rare-earth firm at Estonia's request. The UK separately expanded sanctions to cover roughly 90% of Russian oil output, its shadow fleet, and finance networks, while a bipartisan group of US senators urged the Trump administration to move faster on sanctioning Russia's oil trade, financial networks and military-industrial complex.