The European Union’s Brussels envoys agreed on Tuesday to extend until the end of January the energy, financial and defense sanctions on Russia over the conflict in Ukraine, diplomatic sources said. The bloc’s ministers have yet to formally approve the six-month roll-over but diplomats said there was no doubt they would. France and Britain asked for time to receive comments from their parliaments, though these have no power to block it. Diplomats said formal ministerial approval had been penciled in for a meeting in Luxembourg on Friday although it could be held over until an EU leaders summit next week, or even later. After more than two years of sanctions slapped over Moscow’s annexation of Crimea from Kiev and backing for east Ukraine’s rebels, the […]