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Britain hits Putin’s war chest: 31 new sanctions on shadow fleet, propagandists and torturers

The Foreign Office announced asset freezes and travel bans on 23 individuals and entities and trade sanctions on eight ships, in one of the largest single-day sanctions packages of the war.

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