Tuesday 29 April 2014 13.14 The European Union has imposed asset freezes and travel bans on 15 Russians, including a deputy prime minister and a deputy chairman of the State Duma, over Russia's actions in Ukraine.
Others on the list released today include the chief of staff of Russia's armed forces and separatist leaders.
However, the list did not include the heads of Russian energy giants such as Rosneft's Igor Sechin, who was included on a new US sanctions list yesterday.
The decision brings to 48 the number of people that the EU has put under sanctions for actions it says have undermined Ukraine's territorial integrity.
Russia's Foreign Ministry has criticised the new sanctions, saying the EU is under the thumb of the US.
It said the EU should be ashamed and that the sanctions against will not help stabilise Ukraine.
Russia annexed the Crimea region after Ukraine's pro-Russia president was ousted in February by protesters demanding closer links with Europe.
Ukraine and the West accuse Russia of stirring up a separatist campaign in the east, a charge the government in Moscow denies.
Russia criticised the new sanctions, saying the EU was following the US' lead and should be ashamed of itself.
"Instead of forcing the Kiev clique to sit at the table with southeastern Ukraine to negotiate the future structure of the country, our partners are doing Washington's bidding with new unfriendly gestures aimed at Russia," the Foreign Ministry said.
The EU decision coincided with an earlier White House announcement that the US was imposing sanctions on seven Russians and 17 companies linked to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The US has been much more aggressive in the penalties it has imposed on Russia than the EU has been, which depends heavily on Russia for energy and has close trading links.
The EU has so far only put sanctions on individuals, not companies.
The European Commission is drawing up a list of tougher economic sanctions, possibly affecting trade or the energy or finance sectors, that could be imposed on Russia.
Meanwhile, there are reports that pro-Russian militants have stormed an official building in the eastern city of Lugansk.
Elsewhere, the mayor of Kharkiv, who was critically injured after being shot in the back by an unknown assailant, has been flown to Israel for treatment, local officials said.
Israeli doctors were said to have decided that Mayor Gennady Kernes could be transported after examining his wounds.
The shooting in Ukraine's second-largest city was the latest violent incident in the east of the country, where authorities have launched what they call an "anti-terrorism" operation against pro-Russian separatists.
The mayor appeared to be targeted by a sniper, although the exact circumstances and motivations behind his shooting are unclear.
A NATO official said it had seen no sign that tens of thousands of Russian troops are withdrawing from close to the Ukraine border.
This was despite a Russian statement that the troops had returned to their permanent positions.
Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu told US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel in a phone call that Russian forces, which started drills near the border last week, had returned to their permanent positions.
"We currently have no information that indicates a withdrawal of Russian troops from the Ukrainian border. We continue to urge Russia to abide by the Geneva agreement and to pull back all its troops along the Ukrainian border in favour of diplomacy and dialogue," the NATO official said.
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