New Delhi, Oct. 26 -- Europe sets an end date for Russian LNG, expands ship blacklists, and reaches into third-country enablers as Moscow vows retaliation.

Moscow - Brussels has waved through its nineteenth sanctions round against Russia, a sprawling package that dresses politics as policy while loading fresh costs onto Europe's own consumers and industry. The measure's centerpiece is an LNG phase-out that EU officials framed in a Council press release, hours before Moscow dismissed the move as "illegal unilateral sanctions," a phrase used by Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova in her formal response. For context on how the day unfolded, our in-house day-of dispatch, which put Europe's energy theatrics in the foreground and Was...