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EU foreign chief Kallas announces largest Russia sanctions expansion since 2022

New package would increase sanctioned Russian entities by a third, costing Russia over €1 trillion so far

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EU foreign chief Kallas announces largest Russia sanctions expansion since 2022

What this story says

  • The EU plans to adopt its largest sanctions expansion against Russia since the 2022 invasion, increasing sanctioned entities by a third.
  • EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said existing sanctions have cost Russia over €1 trillion ($1.16 trillion).
  • The new package is expected in autumn, though Kallas did not provide specific timing or details.
  • No left-rated outlet reported on the announcement, despite coverage from five centre-rated and four right-rated outlets.

Who covered it

Left 25%(14)Centre 33%(19)Right 42%(24)

Percentages are shares of the 57 outlets carrying a published leaning rating. 51 of the 108 outlets we know ran this story carry no rating and are not counted in them. Coverage measured .

Trust

74/100

Craft

58/100

Hype

20/100

108 sources · methodology

Missing from the left

Only 14 of the 57 outlets with a published leaning rating that ran this story are rated left.

A reader who follows the left would not have seen this. We report the absence rather than explain it: outlets choose what to cover for many reasons, and we have no evidence about which one applies here.

The European Union intends to adopt its most extensive sanctions package against Russia since the start of the war in Ukraine. EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas told German newspaper Die Welt that the new measures would increase the total number of sanctioned Russian entities by a third. The package is expected to be introduced in autumn, though Kallas did not specify a date or further details.

Kallas said EU sanctions have already cost Russia over €1 trillion ($1.16 trillion), depriving its war effort of funding. The most recent sanctions package, approved in July, targeted Russia’s banking sector and cryptocurrency networks. The EU has not disclosed which sectors or entities the new sanctions would cover.

What the coverage left out

No left-rated outlet ran the story. None of the right-rated digests mentioned that the new sanctions would increase the number of sanctioned entities by a third, though The Star Kuala Lumpur’s full report did. Only The Star Kuala Lumpur’s full report included Kallas’s statement that the pressure must keep growing until Moscow ends the war.

Coverage settled. We checked this 10 times and stopped on 22 Aug 2026, 14:01. The figures above are what it finished at.

How each side covered it

Our own reading of the reporting listed below, written from the outlets’ articles rather than quoted from them. The reasoning is set out on our methodology page.

Left

14 rated outlets

  • All seven left-rated outlets reported that the EU plans to expand sanctions on Russia, with Kaja Kallas proposing the largest package since the 2022 invasion. Six of the seven led on the scale of the expansion, describing it as the most ambitious or extensive since the war began.
  • Five digests included the current number of sanctioned entities, nearly 3,000, while three noted the proposed increase would raise this by a third. Two mentioned the estimated cost to Russia of existing sanctions, citing over €1 trillion in losses to its military capacity.
  • None of the digests quoted Russian officials or independent analysts. All attributed the announcement to Kallas, with four specifying her interview in *Die Welt* as the source. The Kyiv Post alone referenced the 21 previous rounds of EU sanctions.

Centre

19 rated outlets

  • All five centre-rated digests led on the EU’s intention to expand sanctions in the coming months. RTÉ, WTVB, The Mighty 790 KFGO, Market Screener and Reuters each reported that Kallas had announced the new package, with four of the five including her statement that sanctions have cost Russia over €1 trillion. None of the centre-rated digests mentioned the planned one-third increase in sanctioned entities.

Right

24 rated outlets

  • The four right-rated digests all led on Kallas’s announcement of the autumn sanctions package. Free Malaysia Today, Arab News, The Straits Times and The Star Kuala Lumpur each included her statement that the new measures would be the most far-reaching since the war began. The Star Kuala Lumpur’s full report quoted Kallas directly: “The pressure must keep growing until Moscow ends its war.”
  • Three of the four right-rated digests carried Kallas’s €1 trillion cost estimate. The Straits Times did not. Only The Star Kuala Lumpur’s full report mentioned that the new package would increase the number of sanctioned entities by a third.

Questions about this coverage

How did the left and right cover EU foreign chief Kallas announces largest Russia sanctions expansion…?
Of the 57 outlets on this story carrying a published leaning rating, 25% are rated left, 33% are rated centre, 42% are rated right. Those percentages are shares of the rated outlets, not of every outlet that ran it, which was 108. The sections above set out what each side emphasised, in its own terms.
Is EU foreign chief Kallas announces largest Russia sanctions expansion… left or right?
Neither side dominates it. Of the 57 rated outlets on this story, 25% are rated left, 33% are rated centre, 42% are rated right, and no side holds the 70% this site would want before calling a field one-sided. A story is not left or right in any case; the outlets that carried it are what carry ratings.
Is the coverage of EU foreign chief Kallas announces largest Russia sanctions expansion… biased?
EU foreign chief Kallas announces largest Russia sanctions expansion since 2022 is one event reported by 108 outlets, and this page does not rate the story as biased or unbiased. What it publishes is the spread: which outlets ran it, where named rating organisations place each of them on the spectrum, and what each side chose to lead with. A leaning rating describes an outlet's record over time, not this article, and the two should not be run together.
Which side is not reporting EU foreign chief Kallas announces largest Russia sanctions expansion…?
When we first saw this story, outlets rated left had barely covered it. Coverage accretes for hours after an event, so that is where to look rather than a verdict — the split above is the current count, and it is the one to read.
Which outlets covered EU foreign chief Kallas announces largest Russia sanctions expansion…?
108 that we know of, every one of them listed further up this page with a link to its own report and to what we hold on the publisher. Nothing here is a summary of somebody else's summary: the outlets are named so the original reporting can be read.
How much have EU sanctions cost Russia so far?
EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said sanctions have cost Russia over €1 trillion ($1.16 trillion), depriving its war effort of funding. The figure was reported by The Star Kuala Lumpur, Arab News, WTVB, The Mighty 790 KFGO and Market Screener, among others.
What will the new EU sanctions package include?
The new package is expected to increase the number of sanctioned Russian entities by a third, according to Kallas. She did not provide further details on timing or which sectors would be targeted. The Star Kuala Lumpur was the only outlet to report the one-third increase.
Which outlets reported on the EU’s new sanctions plan?
Five centre-rated outlets and four right-rated outlets covered the story. No left-rated outlet reported on Kallas’s announcement. The Star Kuala Lumpur published the only full report, while the others carried digests.

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