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US issues new 'sweeping' sanctions against Russia — will they make a difference this time?
The U.S. State and Treasury departments issued what they called a "sweeping" set of sanctions against Russia and its financial backers on June 12, in the latest move to try and degrade Moscow's wartime economy. Western countries have imposed extensive economic restrictions against Moscow over its full-scale invasion of