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European Commission proposes 5th package of sanctions on Russia.

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Ursula von der Leyen announced the fifth package of sanctions on April 5, banning the import of coal, a full transaction ban on four Russian banks including Russia’s second-largest bank VTB to "further weaken Russia's financial system." Also, Russian vessels won’t be allowed to access EU ports, and Russian, Belarusian road transport operators will be banned from entering the EU, von der Leyen said.

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The Kyiv Independent staff documented what it feels like to live and sleep in Kyiv, Ukraine, as Russia intensifies its drone and missile attacks on the city. Filmed over several weeks in June and July, our journalists take shelter in bathrooms, basements, and parking garages as explosions ring out overhead.

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