The European Union has adopted a fresh round of sanctions against Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, including freezing the overseas assets of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, a top European official said. Latvia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Edgars Rinkevics, confirmed in a statement that the European Union’s Foreign Affairs Council had adopted a second package of sanctions and that among them is an asset freeze targeting Lavrov and Putin. Inclusion of the two top Kremlin officials in the sanctions was separately confirmed by German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, according to Russian news agency Tass. While neither Baerbock nor Rinkevics provided more details on the asset freeze, Bloomberg cited two senior EU officials as saying that the measures targeting Putin and Lavrov would not impact the duo’s ability to travel so as to keep the door open to diplomacy, at least symbolically. The Latvian foreign minister also said that …