Ukraine will ask the EU next week to consider big new steps to isolate Moscow, including seizing Russian assets and bringing in sanctions for some buyers of Russian oil, as U.S. President Donald Trump has backed off from tightening sanctions.

Kyiv’s European allies have slapped new sanctions on Moscow, a day after a phone call between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin failed to produce a breakthrough on ending the 3-year-old war in Ukraine.

Lithuanian Foreign Minister Kęstutis Budrys has called on the European Union to begin work now on the 18th package of sanctions against Russia which should hit its most vulnerable points. Source: Budrys after the EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting in Brussels,