Taoiseach backs EU ban on coal and oil imports from Russia

People pass a mural of President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy, by the artist Phil Atkinson in Granard, Co Longford. Picture: Niall Carson/PA

The Taoiseach has said he would back an EU ban on coal and oil imports from Russia over its war in Ukraine.

Micheál Martin said the European Union must keep adding pressure on Moscow to stop its “appalling and immoral war” on the people of Ukraine.