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Sergey Fursa: These sanctions need to be imposed against Russia immediately
Ukrainian bankers, analysts and economists have joined forces to develop a list of sanctions that have not yet been introduced, but could substantially hit Russia and force Russian dictator Vladimir Putin to retreat. Of course, these measures could hurt not only Russians, but also the economies of the collective West.

Sanctions likely to seriously hurt Russia. But they may not stop the war
It took a full-scale invasion by Russia into Ukraine to get the international community to apply a range of sanctions against the attacking country. The most severe penalty was the move to sever certain Russian banks from the international payment order system SWIFT and prevent the Russian Central Bank from

Eugene Czolij: The West must act now
With Russia’s ruthless and unprovoked invasion of Ukraine in the early morning hours of 24 February 2022, Vladimir Putin has brazenly challenged the West. Ukraine is courageously holding the fort at a high cost of human lives, both military and civilian, as well as an inestimable destruction of property.
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