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EU Targets Sanctions Evasion on Ukraine War Anniversary

By Koos Couvée

Representatives of the EU, U.S. and allied nations met in Brussels on Thursday as the bloc aims to tackle attempts by Russia to skirt the wide-ranging financial and trade embargos it has imposed over Moscow's war in Ukraine. Since President Vladimir Putin ordered his troops into mainland Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, the EU, U.S. and other Western allies have introduced unprecedented sanctions against the Central Bank of Russia, blacklisted several Russian lenders and hundreds of officials and oligarchs, and targeted the country's oil, defense and technology sectors and other industries. On the eve of the first anniversary of the...

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