The European Union imposes new sanctions on Russia

The 27 countries of the European Union decided on Wednesday to impose new sanctions on Moscow and Minsk after the invasion of Ukraine, including the dismissal of three Belarusian banks from the "SWIFT" system for money transfers, as announced by the French presidency of the Council of the European Union.

During their meeting in Brussels, representatives of member states also approved new sanctions targeting the maritime sector and cryptocurrencies and added Russian leaders and oligarchs to their blacklist, the EU presidency wrote on Twitter, in measures aimed at completing the three packages of sanctions adopted by the European Union in the past two weeks. .

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