While international attention tends to focus on the anti-Russian sanctions imposed by the West, Ukraine and Russia are locked in their own cycle of increasingly harsh sanctions measures that plays an important role in the ongoing seven-year hybrid war between the two countries. Russia typically initiates these exchanges, but eventually, Ukraine responds.
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Anders Aslund: Ukraine’s Russia sanctions target Putin’s inner circle
French President Emmanuel Macron (R) and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (L) hold a press conference following their meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris on April 16, 2021.
